They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
“I do remember she’d been asking him to quit the cancer sticks and he kept promising (vaguely, the way addicts do) that he would get around to it.”
― Fairy Tale
― Fairy Tale
“I was miserable and making everyone around me miserable.”
― A World of Curiosities
― A World of Curiosities
“Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.”
― El conde de Montecristo: Ilustrado
― El conde de Montecristo: Ilustrado
“Billy likes people, and he likes to keep them at arms’ length. It sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not.”
― Billy Summers
― Billy Summers
“porque las oraciones para el hombre que es dichoso son a veces palabras vacías de sentido, hasta que el dolor viene a explicar al infortunio ese lenguaje sublime con que nos habla Dios.”
― El Conde de Montecristo
― El Conde de Montecristo
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