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“Seems more plausible that Hell is some revenge fantasy concocted by unhappy people so they could punish all the happy people in their minds.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“A few days ago, a woman had come in with swatches of fabric and asked him to find her books only in those colors.
Last week a man had been looking for War and Peace, and when Mitchell explained that he was temporarily out of anything by Tolstoy, the man asked if he had it by anyone else. It was a terrible time for books.”
― Five Tuesdays in Winter
Last week a man had been looking for War and Peace, and when Mitchell explained that he was temporarily out of anything by Tolstoy, the man asked if he had it by anyone else. It was a terrible time for books.”
― Five Tuesdays in Winter
“It’s a strange thing, life.
It feels like life is an endless ellipsis
More and more unspoken, and mostly misunderstood.”
― Journey of Unwoven Threads
It feels like life is an endless ellipsis
More and more unspoken, and mostly misunderstood.”
― Journey of Unwoven Threads
“I had spent a lifetime hating my appearance in the present and then appreciating it in retrospect.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“The past is like the Gran Cavallo and you can’t fix the Gran Cavallo, right? I mean, sure, who doesn’t fantasize about drawing in the rest of the horse, and maybe the sky around the horse. But what would the painting be worth then? Absolutely nothing. So it is what it is. Imperfect, unfinished, forever. We just have to move on, call it a masterpiece, even if it’s not, and start working on a new goddamned painting.” “I suppose I didn’t realize that’s what it would feel like getting older,” Phoebe confesses.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
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