“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
“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
― Dear John
― Dear John
“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
“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
“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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