Maurice would tease Bob, which Bob hated, but it was only the natural order of things, the way families pass down pain like an inheritance.
“A CACTUS DOESN’T LIVE in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn’t killed it yet.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
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“Nick has been holding out his hand for my reading glasses”
― Sandwich
― Sandwich
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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