There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them.
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“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― If We Were Villains
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― If We Were Villains
“He didn't say goodbye," she said numbly
"Oh, darling. I think he's been trying to say goodbye to you since he met you.”
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"Oh, darling. I think he's been trying to say goodbye to you since he met you.”
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“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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