“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It’s a strange and uniquely painful thing when you try to reach someone and instead you pass right through them, like a ghost; it makes you feel not all the way there yourself.”
― Picture Us in the Light
― Picture Us in the Light
“She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.
Words are not small things.”
― Beartown
Words are not small things.”
― Beartown
“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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