“I don’t want you to be a woman of mystery. I think I’d hate it. Either it’s just a façade, a game, a technique for ensnaring men, or else the woman of mystery is a mystery even to herself, and that’s the worst of all.”
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“At least when you were silent, you didn’t make any new enemies.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
“Let’s go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of finding perfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won’t be disappointed.”
― Flowers in the Attic
― Flowers in the Attic
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