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“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?"
He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”
― I Capture the Castle
He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”
― I Capture the Castle
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