“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires”
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
― Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home.”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn
“Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. (211)”
― Olive Kitteridge
― Olive Kitteridge
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