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‘The first time I arrived at Clairefontaine, Didier Deschamps took me to one side and said, “Robert, I want you to know you’re welcome here, and I hope you’ll be coming to the château for as many years as possible.” I don’t know why he said
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Elaine Souza
“Because nothing—not the beautiful and not the terrible—lasts.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“I am Cuban, and yet, I am not. I don’t know where I fit here, in the land of my grandparents, attempting to recreate a Cuba that no longer exists in reality. Perhaps we’re the dreamers in all of this. The hopeful ones. Dreaming of a Cuba we cannot see with our eyes, that we cannot touch, whose taste lingers on our palates, with the tang of memory. The exiles are the historians, the memory keepers of a lost Cuba, one that’s nearly forgotten.”
― Next Year in Havana
― Next Year in Havana
“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“I was never the one just having fun. I was the one anticipating consequences.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“He assured me that people do stupid things, say stupid things, but it doesn’t need to be their intrinsic nature. I was showing my true nature, he said, by seeking to atone. Seeking absolution.”
― Spare
― Spare
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