“When you put a gun in some kid’s hands and send him off to war,” he told me during an interview, “you incur an infinite debt to him for what he has done to his soul.”
“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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