“I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
“For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.”
― Choke
― Choke
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
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“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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