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“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
― 100 Love Sonnets
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”
― Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'
― Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss and the Musical 'Rent'
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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