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“Do you know how miserable condition i got into Nastenka? Now i have to celebrate anniversaries of my former feelings.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Entonces ahuecó las manos junto a la boca y exclamó: —¡Por ti lo haría mil veces más!”
― Cometas en el cielo
― Cometas en el cielo
“Because you were right when you said that people can’t always give us what we want from them; that you can’t ask them to love you the way you want. No one can be blamed for that. And the odds had been stacked against us from the start: we had no manual, no one to show us the way. Not one example of a happy couple made up of boys. How were we supposed to know what to do? Did we even believe that we deserved to get away with happiness?”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“My hands are stained with Hassan’s blood; I pray God doesn’t let them get stained with the blood of his boy too.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
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