

“The reason I want to remember this is because I know we'll never be able to do it again.”
― Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
― Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

“God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead

“That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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