“He was too busy enjoying the flowers to be put off by the blood — which is a wise policy, whenever one can manage it.”
― The Rifles
― The Rifles
“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.”
― The Rifles
― The Rifles
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