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“You said this place was haunted,” Shooting Glasses tells her. “By all the ghosts of who everybody used to want to be, before they died inside,” Jade says.
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“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
― The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
“I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.”
― The Orchid Thief
― The Orchid Thief
“Fear was inevitable. We all made our choices, and we all suffered our consequences. We all felt fear. The trick was learning to live with that fear, to continue forward in spite of it.”
― Gods & Monsters
― Gods & Monsters
“there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.”
― It
― It
“The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives... The sun will burn you by day and the cold will shrivel you by night. You'll be racked by fever and tormented by a hundred discomforts, but you'll go on. For when a man falls in love with orchids, he'll do anything to possess the one he wants. It's like chasing a green-eyed woman or taking cocaine... it's a sort of madness...”
― The Orchid Thief
― The Orchid Thief
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