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“Life is harsh, either way. You either hate the years that you’re given, or you love the years and they leave you.”
― Hello, Dove
― Hello, Dove
“Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“This is the nature of temptation, you see. If it didn’t come in the exact form we desire, we would never consider it. All it takes to indulge in what we want is to turn a blind eye now and then.”
― Delphine Dodd
― Delphine Dodd
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and disposition of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — Mark Twain, Letters From Earth”
― Setting the Family Free
― Setting the Family Free
“But the look Charles Manson had given him one night, when he’d slammed the cell door shut, would stick in his mind always. It was the stare of a crazed lunatic, someone unpredictable, who you wouldn’t want to trust whether encountered in a dark alley or open field.”
― Setting the Family Free
― Setting the Family Free
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