“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks. ”
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― Ten Little Indians
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
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“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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