“On niitä jotka jäävät ja toisia jotka lähtevät, niin on ollut aina. Kukin saa valita itse, mutta on valittava ajoissa, eikä koskaan saa antaa periksi.”
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“It is only when you get older that everyone makes you feel bad about being alone, or implies that spending time with other people is somehow better, because it proves you to be likeable.
But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”
― Pure Colour
But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”
― Pure Colour
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.
- An Eightieth Birthday”
― Travelling Light
- An Eightieth Birthday”
― Travelling Light
“No matter what you’ve been through, your story is one among many. Try focusing on that,” she says. “Focus on the feeling of the world getting wider.”
― Easy Beauty
― Easy Beauty
“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
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