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“Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.”
― The Keys of the Kingdom
― The Keys of the Kingdom
“You begin a marriage with such high ideals, thinking everything should be perfect. When it’s not, you throw your toys out of the crib. But then you’re living in an empty apartment with kids who don’t call. It was better with the toys,”
― The 22 Murders of Madison May
― The 22 Murders of Madison May
“They are quiet for a long time. “Do you remember the time you told me you were afraid that you were a series of nasty surprises for me?” he asks him, and Jude nods, slightly. “You aren’t,” he tells him. “You aren’t. But being with you is like being in this fantastic landscape,” he continues, slowly. “You think it’s one thing, a forest, and then suddenly it changes, and it’s a meadow, or a jungle, or cliffs of ice. And they’re all beautiful, but they’re strange as well, and you don’t have a map, and you don’t understand how you got from one terrain to the next so abruptly, and you don’t know when the next transition will arrive, and you don’t have any of the equipment you need. And so you keep walking through, and trying to adjust as you go, but you don’t really know what you’re doing, and often you make mistakes, bad mistakes. That’s sometimes what it feels like.” They’re silent. “So basically,” Jude says at last, “basically, you’re saying I’m New Zealand.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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