“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Pipefuls
― Pipefuls
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
― A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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