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“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I would like to have seen the world with eyes incapable of anything but wonder, and with a tongue fluent only in praise.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
“The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy—smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit—was also the old man who’d clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul. And the painting, above his head, was the still point where it all hinged: dreams and signs, past and future, luck and fate. There wasn’t a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The words shot through Vivi's bones and blood and muscle, and her body relaxed, so that when her feet touched the ground they met the earth differently, as though they had found roots that reached deep down and anchored to something tender and undamaged.”
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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