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“The rumpled bed was the only proof that anyone had stayed here. Already the room had lost the feel of him; it even seemed to smell empty, despite his own scent on the sheets. He never stayed anywhere long enough to make that feel cling past his readiness to leave. Never long enough to put down roots, make it any kind of home.”
― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising

“I’m too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Please, he thought. I want to believe. I really do. I just … I just need something. Something more than shadows and memories. Something real.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages

“I can’t understand why a girl like you—” he began, and fell right into the oldest conviction in the world—that the girl you are in love with can’t possibly be anything but true and honest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden