“You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
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“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.”
― Marabou Stork Nightmares
― Marabou Stork Nightmares
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Women
― Women
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