“To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inconvenience against the weight of someone else's pain.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“That was what stories did, or the ones that mattered to us: They helped us to understand others, but they could also make us feel understood in turn, and less alone in the world.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“It is the curse of being long-lived: life ceases to hold many surprises, and only by giving oneself up to extremes can the monotony be broken.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused, or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar—one may gain comfort from it, but not knowledge—only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
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