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The sound of those doors, locking him in, locking her out, was the sound of her defeat and failure. She wandered through the corridors, trying to find the exit. There were signs everywhere, arrows pointing, boldly colored lines on the floor
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Love this paragraph. Love being inside the minutiae of a character's experience of daily life.
“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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