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Professor Lovell had promised him everything, and owed him nothing. Robin did not yet fully understand the rules of this world he was about to enter, but he understood the necessity of gratitude. Of deference. One did not spite one’s
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“I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: 'It's there.'
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. Looking around the rug one thing's for sure: it's here.”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“remember that trying is eighty percent of doing something. So try and don't give up, because not giving up is the other twenty percent.”
― A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
― A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
“Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?”
― 84, Charing Cross Road
― 84, Charing Cross Road
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
“Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything."
I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet.”
― Magic Bites
I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet.”
― Magic Bites
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