“Memories: some can be sucker punching, others carry you forward; some stay with you forever, others you forget on your own. You can't really know which ones you'll survive if you don't stay on the battlefield, bad times shooting at you like bullets. But if you're lucky, you'll have plenty of good times to shield you.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.”
― More Happy Than Not
― More Happy Than Not
“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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