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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
― Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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