“Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.”
― The Versions of Us
― The Versions of Us
“Well, you change as you get older, especially at this time in your life. You become more yourself, hopefully. And sometimes that changes the dynamic, even with people you love. So it's not that you were wrong. You were right for that time. But you grow up and you grow out of relationships. Even the ones you thought, at one point, might be forever.”
― The Names They Gave Us
― The Names They Gave Us
“Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.”
― The Names They Gave Us
― The Names They Gave Us
“Je serai forte.
Comme une femme.
Comme un gladiateur.”
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Comme une femme.
Comme un gladiateur.”
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“How dreadful, Eva thinks, that her life should be defined only in relation to the men she loved.”
― The Versions of Us
― The Versions of Us
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