“Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you’d never known you’d had.”
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
“two people: the one inside that was the truth, and the one outside that almost everyone believed him to be.”
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
“the pain didn’t go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Self-pity is a worse adversary than ignorance.”
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
― The Story of Beautiful Girl
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