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“What the war did to dreamers.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“even a cracked pot has a lid that fits.”
― The Briefcase
― The Briefcase
“Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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