“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
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“He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― The Books in My Life
― The Books in My Life
“O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain,
And once made perfect, never lost again.”
― Venus and Adonis
And once made perfect, never lost again.”
― Venus and Adonis
“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
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