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“That’s silly. We all use poison. You just have a weird thing for it.”
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.”
― It
― It
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.”
― The Vampire Armand
― The Vampire Armand
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