“It's a beautiful morning but a terrible day.”
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
― My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
“What are we here for? We are not alive though we are living and we are not in our graves though we are dead.”
― The House of the Dead: New Translation
― The House of the Dead: New Translation
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mother and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“-- and I'm not drunk, honestly I'm not, because I haven't had my breakfast yet and there's nothing inside me but my sins.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .”
― The Miniaturist
― The Miniaturist
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