“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”
― The Aftermath
― The Aftermath
“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
―
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
―
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
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