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Land

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: comfort, sad, sadness

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“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

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