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“Dublin is extraordinarily beautiful to her in wet weather, the way gray stone darkens to black, and rain moves over the grass and whispers on slick roof tiles. Raincoats glistening in the undersea color of street lamps. Rain silver as loose change in the glare of traffic.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Scottish writer George MacDonald once said, “No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.”
― With God on the Golf Course
― With God on the Golf Course
“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“I dream too much and I don’t write enough and I’m trying to find god everywhere.”
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