“All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.”
― The Yellow Birds
― The Yellow Birds
“To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.”
― A Life with Books
― A Life with Books
“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
― City of Bohane
― City of Bohane
“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.”
― TransAtlantic
― TransAtlantic
“The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.”
― The Yips
― The Yips
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