“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
“First they burned the books, then the people who wrote them, then those who read them.”
― Magic Lessons
― Magic Lessons
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”—Malachy McCourt”
― The Atonement Murders
― The Atonement Murders
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