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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Only God knows how much I love you.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules