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Luke Jones
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“People think anger is an edge, but anger is a weakness that poisons you and the environment around you.”
― Room to Dream
― Room to Dream
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”
― Portrait of a Lady on Fire
― Portrait of a Lady on Fire
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Buddha’s words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“ The man rolls over onto his back, face-to-face with the morning sky. The messages swarm him. Even here, homeless, he thinks: Nothing will be the same.
The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same.
We're all doomed, the man thinks.
We have always all been doomed.
But things are different this time.
Yes. You're here.”
― The Overstory
The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same.
We're all doomed, the man thinks.
We have always all been doomed.
But things are different this time.
Yes. You're here.”
― The Overstory
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