“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Crazy, jingle-jangle summer days and long, steamy Carioca nights. Narcisa and I running from the cops together, merging into humid nighttime shadows, hand in hand, laughing through it all. Jingle days. Times to remember forever.”
― Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
― Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
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