“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“if you make the easy choice every day, then it becomes a pattern, and your patterns become your life.”
― The Nix
― The Nix
“You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.”
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
― The Tsar of Love and Techno
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