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It might have been the last time I looked right into a lens and smiled with no reservations, with no shame.
“a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around who's enough like yourself to understand you.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“I must part with you for my whole life," she read, with horror. "I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes." The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“I am here as a speck, but I don't feel scared or about to be blown away, I feel like all New York is a warm embrace just waiting to enfold me.”
― Fall on Your Knees
― Fall on Your Knees
“...it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?”
― The Cider House Rules
― The Cider House Rules
“There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean".”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
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