“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us--”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us--”
― Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean?
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.”
― The Passion
It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.”
― The Passion
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