“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.”
― Delirium
― Delirium
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