“Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”
― And Still I Rise
― And Still I Rise
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
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“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― The Road
― The Road
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