Shakila
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“What is there to fear in such a regular world?”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.”
― Chain of Iron
― Chain of Iron
“No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“You must stop this," he said. "You will make yourself unworthy by considering yourself unworthy. We become what we are afraid we will be.”
― Chain of Iron
― Chain of Iron
“The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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