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“He glances sideways once, catches her glancing sideways right back at him with a secretive smile, and he considers the possibility that maybe the opposite of hate is not love. It’s hope. Because hate takes years to build, but hope can come sliding around the corner when you’re not even looking.”
― Small Mercies
― Small Mercies
“I couldn't begin to imagine the life that was rolling out ahead of me. But I did understand it would pass over me with the force of a river, and that I needed to pin the water to its banks and hold it still, somehow, to give myself time to know it.”
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
“Due to the unearthly flatness where a city had been famously incinerated, the events he already called his life were growing inconsiderable before he had practised making them important. This derived from a sense not of proportion but of profound chaos, a welter in which his own lucky little order appeared miraculous but inconsequential; and from a revelation, nearly religious, that the colossal scale of evil could only be matched or countered by some solitary flicker of intense and private humanity.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“He was the kind of man for whom everyday life involved a series of evasions; secrets and hiding were second nature to him, subtle vanishing acts. He valued his privacy so much he didn’t even like being asked how he was.”
― Loved and Missed
― Loved and Missed
“The loss of empathy is also the loss of humanity, and that's no small tradeoff.”
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
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