“When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.”
― The Red Parts
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.”
― The Red Parts
“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air”
― The Thursday Murder Club
― The Thursday Murder Club
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
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