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“We had all wanted the simplest thing, to love and be loved and be safe together, but we had lost it and I didn’t know how to get it back.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“I shall have to miss forever some beautiful, wonderful things because of that wretched, lonely childhood. There will always be a lacking, a wanting -- some dead branches that never grew leaves. It is not deaths and murders and plots and wars that make life tragedy. It is day after day, and year after year, and Nothing. It is a sunburned little hand reached out and Nothing put into it.”
― I Await the Devil's Coming
― I Await the Devil's Coming
“There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would.”
― The Snows of Kilimanjaro
― The Snows of Kilimanjaro
“It is day after day. It is week after week. It is month after month. It is year after year. It is only time going and going. There is no joy. There is no lightness of heart. It is only the passing of days. I am young and alone.”
― I Await the Devil's Coming
― I Await the Devil's Coming
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