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Maureen Randall
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home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.”
“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
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Is written somewhere in a book.”
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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
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“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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