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If I ever did a crime, I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.” “People like you—the wilful sunbeams of life—don’t commit crimes,
“I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“He locked the door that lay behind his eyes and walked away, leaving the body, the plaster dust, the flask of cold tea, and the angry gaffer behind.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“She had loved him, and he had needed to break her completely to leave her for good. Agnes Bain was too rare a thing to let someone else love. It wouldn't do to leave pieces of her for another man to collect and repair later.”
― Shuggie Bain
― Shuggie Bain
“It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.”
― The Bean Trees
― The Bean Trees
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