How unfair that time only goes one way, that by the time you understand how much you will miss something, it’s only because you’re already missing it.
“I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Insignificance
― Insignificance
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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