“There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.”
― The Secret of the Nagas
― The Secret of the Nagas
“I just need some time away to remember why I stay.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
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