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“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
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