Mary Lafferty
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“You decide for yourself when it will hurt.”
― Out Stealing Horses
― Out Stealing Horses
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
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“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― No Exit
― No Exit
“On any given day, something can come along and steal our hearts. It may be any old thing: a rosebud, a lost cap, a favorite sweater from childhood, an old Gene Pitney record. A miscellany of trivia with no home to call their own. Lingering for two or three days, that something soon disappears, returning to the darkness. There are wells, deep wells, dug in our hearts. Birds fly over them."
-from "Pinball, 1973”
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
-from "Pinball, 1973”
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
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