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“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“I made a t-shirt that says, "Today's my birthday" on it, so that I can ask for hugs from strangers and point to the text on my tee as the reason why they should oblige. It's not a once-a-year t-shirt, as I wear it every Tuesday.”
― This Book is Not for Sale
― This Book is Not for Sale
“Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.”
― The Sun Watches the Sun
― The Sun Watches the Sun
“Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.”
― The Story of a Marriage
― The Story of a Marriage
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