“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Happiness is harder to put into words. It’s also harder to source, much more mysterious than anger or sorrow, which come to me promptly, whenever I summon them, and remain long after I’ve begged them to leave.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
“You feel even more naked and alone, he said silently, when you reveal yourself, a gratuitous act, for the strength and comfort you look for, any of those last illusions of consolations, can finally be only within you.”
― English, August: An Indian Story
― English, August: An Indian Story
“They play with unflinching seriousness, as if life depended upon the flick of a piece or the snap of a clock - and it does. Some of these men have lost jobs and wives playing night after night, usually against the same opponent. . . . Night after night, the same men sit across from one another in the same chairs. They seem to have no sense of the passing of time.”
― Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Father's Story of Love and Ambition
― Searching for Bobby Fischer: A Father's Story of Love and Ambition
“He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.”
― Sacred Games
― Sacred Games
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