Diya Ghosh
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‘The director asked me to pass on another message: you did not take that wallet when you were nine years old. And he’ll be deuced if you took anything now. And it would be a damned pity for him to be responsible for turfing a decent man’s
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“but the sum total of the thing is this: life is life and death is death, and what is dead is dead, and gone is gone, and busy is busy. The gist being that if great beings and treasures and memories depart, never to return, what happens to ordinary everyday items? Nothing.”
― Tomb of Sand
― Tomb of Sand
“don’t you think youth comes at the wrong time? When we haven’t lived at all. It comes and then it’s gone, and we don’t even notice.”
― Tomb of Sand
― Tomb of Sand
“And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“That there is a speed at which a heart can beat that you can’t remember when you’ve stopped being young. There is art that can be so beautiful that it makes a teenager too big for her body. There is a sort of happiness so overwhelming that it is almost unbearable, your soul seems to kick its way through your bones. You can see a painting, and for a single moment of your life, just for a single breath, you can forget to be afraid. If you’ve ever experienced that, you know how it feels. If not, there probably isn’t any way to explain it.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“Is there a difference between a prayer and a wish?” Walk took his hat off. “You wish for what you want, and pray for what you need.”
― We Begin at the End
― We Begin at the End
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