The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it.
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Anna Karenina
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Anna Karenina
“It must be nice sometimes to have no feelings. I envy you.’ I considered this, then said: ‘I believe I have many feelings. The more I observe, the more feelings become available to me.’ She laughed unexpectedly, making me start. ‘In that case,’ she said, ‘maybe you shouldn’t be so keen to observe.”
― Klara and the Sun
― Klara and the Sun
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze.
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
― Leaving Paradise
"Yeah," I say.
"Why?"
I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be.”
― Leaving Paradise
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