“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”—Malachy McCourt”
― The Atonement Murders
― The Atonement Murders
“It’s a helluva family tree we fell out of, fellas. Every day I wake up telling myself not to be like the people I came from but the person I wanna be.”
― Return to Hardscrabble Road
― Return to Hardscrabble Road
“At the center of myself I’ve felt a deep, dark well of loneliness that I’m scared to peer into, frightened even to acknowledge.”
― The Secrets We Keep
― The Secrets We Keep
“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“He was not accustomed to crying in front of others, and he could not have said more without crying. More accurately, he was not accustomed to crying, period. He had not indulged that release because of a deep fear that, having allowed the tears to start, he would never find the end of them, or would find they had no end at all.”
― My Name Is Anton
― My Name Is Anton
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