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“No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?”
― Shotgun Lovesongs
― Shotgun Lovesongs
“We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.”
― Autobiography of Us
― Autobiography of Us
“It isn't an easy business (...) Love, he said finally. I was referring to love, Rebecca.”
― Autobiography of Us
― Autobiography of Us
“We think the world is steady, rolling through space beneath our feet, day and night, rain and sunlight. And then, one day, you just fall off the planet and drift away, into outer space, and everything you thought was true all the laws that bound your life before, all the rules and norms that kept things in place, that kept you in place, they're gone. And nothing makes sense anymore. Gravity is gone. Love is gone.”
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“I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.”
― After Dark
― After Dark
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