“There are no coincidences", Silette wrote. "Only mysteries that haven't been solved, clues that haven't been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overheard, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don't see the omens. They don't know how to read the signs.
To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.”
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.”
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
“So many of us go through life with our stories hidden, feeling ashamed or afraid when our whole truth doesn’t live up to some established ideal.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you've been too dumb to take, doors you've been too blind to step through.”
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
― Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
“He dropped my wrist and I fell to the floor. I could hear his steps moving down the hall. I stood and quietly locked the bathroom door, then I stared into the mirror at the girl clutching her wrist. Her eyes were glassy and drops slid down her cheeks. I hated her for her weakness, for having a heart to break. That he could hurt her, that anyone could hurt her like that, was inexcusable.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Much of our time is spent in the past or the future, rather than the present. We end up passing through a moment on the way to somewhere else, and in so doing we miss the moment we are in. The past can’t be changed. The future we can’t control.”
― Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss
― Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss
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