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“The dead were too ...present.”
― The Light in the Ruins
― The Light in the Ruins
“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
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“At night, when no one's there, the dancers and the musicians on the walls come to life and there's a glamorous ball. Sometimes their lights are so bright I can see the glow from my bedroom.”
― The Light in the Ruins
― The Light in the Ruins
“She feared that she’d missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in her head the small memories her mind would offer as tantalizing, but—in the end unsatisfying, glimpses of what may have occurred.”
― The Light in the Ruins
― The Light in the Ruins
“But she insists the family hadn’t a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us?
I really have become quite the Dante scholar: “There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”
― The Light in the Ruins
I really have become quite the Dante scholar: “There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”
― The Light in the Ruins
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