Jem Alcala
https://www.goodreads.com/theclockworkreader
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I’ve learned that giving your heart away to someone is the bravest thing you can ever do. The one moment that it’s cherished, no matter how brief, can help it to survive a lifetime.”
― The Light in the Wound
― The Light in the Wound
“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
“I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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