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He’d accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone.
“We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”’ ‘You know Thoreau?”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“You can have everything and feel nothing.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“I think it is easy to imagine there are easier paths,’ she said, realising something for the first time. ‘But maybe there are no easy paths. There are just paths. In one life, I might be married. In another, I might be working in a shop. I might have said yes to this cute guy who asked me out for a coffee. In another I might be researching glaciers in the Arctic Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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