“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“But I also felt gloomy, dispirited, aware that if I stayed my life would be too deeply touched by these people. I would, in the end, become one of them.”
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“that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there,”
― Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
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“The hells we invent are the hells we have known.”
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