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“I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
― El Principito
― El Principito
“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
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