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think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.
“Now the verandah was so silent I could hear the sound of the raindrops sliding off the leaves.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“As she starts to read, the book travels into her from a long distance, from his mind to mine, across a gap in time, and now she’s not in the room any more, she’s inside the sentences, one joined to the next like a series of tunnels, connected to each other at angles.”
― The promise
― The promise
“Oh, i can deal with the tragedy, it's the farce I can't handle.”
― The Promise
― The Promise
“Movies make you think civilization will end fast, like with aliens and explosions, but really it'll end slow. Ours is already ending, it's just ending too slow for people to notice.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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