The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior [to men] and always have been.”
― Lord of the Flies
― Lord of the Flies
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Blood will have blood.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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