“You were supposed to see the soul through the eyes, to see love through the eyes, the one place you could look at another human being and see what really went on inside,...”
― The Talented Mr Ripley
― The Talented Mr Ripley
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life”
― The Body
― The Body
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
― The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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