“Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he read, the ideas and feelings which nourished him, his judgments and his visions. Outside it, in the scene of his actual life, he moved with a growing sense of unreality and insufficiency, blundering against familiar prejudices and traditional points of view as an absent-minded man goes on bumping into the furniture of his own room.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I can't love you unless I give you up.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”
― Pinocchio
― Pinocchio
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