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“And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day has been, however crook things get. That used to help in France. It put things into perspective—the stars had been around since before there were people. They just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening. Summer, winter, storm, fine weather. People can rely on it.”
― The Light Between Oceans
― The Light Between Oceans
“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”
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“You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“But that’s the thing about choices; you don’t regret them until after they’ve been made.”
― Shame
― Shame
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