“And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more”
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“Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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