“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
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