“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
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“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places. He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions at arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dunghill of the war, the more the war resembled Amaranta. That was how he suffered in exile, looking for a way of killing her with his own death...”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one”
― Fifty Shades Freed
― Fifty Shades Freed
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