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And perhaps there's freedom in being seen by a stranger. Someone with no investment in who I'm supposed to be, someone who will never be part of the life I've constructed.
“Perhaps I was so steeped in love, woven its mythologies through my mind for so long, that when it arrived in reality I could not recognize it.”
― Open, Heaven
― Open, Heaven
“…what gives value to time, the knowledge of its scarcity or the illusion of everlastingness, what takes value away.”
― Small Rain
― Small Rain
“I sometimes wish I could hate a place as easily as other people instead of hating the people themselves.”
― The Lookback Window
― The Lookback Window
“I wonder if I would have been braver if I'd seen myself not in a bar first, but in a book”
― Rough Pages
― Rough Pages
“The "best" book is not necessarily the canonical one.”
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
― Jane Austen's Bookshelf
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