“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“...the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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