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“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
― A Northern Light
― A Northern Light
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
“The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
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