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“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
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“I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden variety button and of lower-priced long johns for the budget-minded shoppers. I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen to me, I would end up an old-maid like Miss Violence, pitied and derided. This at the bottom was my fear. I wanted to be elsewhere, but I saw no way to get there. Once in a while, I found myself hoping that I would be abducted by white slavers, even though I didn't believe in them. At least it would be a change...”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
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