“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“If you marvel at your good fortune, you should marvel in secret: never let people see you.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
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“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
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