“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
“It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.”
― Que serais-je sans toi?
― Que serais-je sans toi?
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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