“But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”
― The House at Pooh Corner
― The House at Pooh Corner
“The things that make us happy make us wise. ”
― Little, Big
― Little, Big
“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― An Abundance of Katherines
― An Abundance of Katherines
“He learned, though slowly, what all great harrowed lovers learn: that love is what most surely compels love -- is perhaps, except for brute force, the only thing that does, though only (and this was the terrible gift he had been given) when the lover truly believes, as August could, that when his love is strong enough it must surely be returned -- and August's was.”
― Little, Big
― Little, Big
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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