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It was still months before we’d tell each other all our stories. And even then some seemed too small to bother with.
“He knew how to find time to study and to write, to earn his living and to wander idly through the streets he loved; whereas we, who staggered from laziness to frantic activity and back again, wasted our time trying to decide whether we were lazy or industrious”
― The Little Virtues
― The Little Virtues
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
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“Our dreams are never realized and as soon as we see them betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”
― The Little Virtues
― The Little Virtues
“At times he was very unhappy, but for a long time we thought that he would be cured of this unhappiness when he decided to become an adult; his unhappiness seemed like that of a boy—the absent-minded, voluptuous melancholy of a boy who has not yet got his feet on the ground and who lives in the sterile, solitary world of his dreams.”
― The Little Virtues
― The Little Virtues
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