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“That’s why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.”
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
― If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
“You’re going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we’re riding in a forest, or landing on an island —'
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics —”
― Night and Day
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics —”
― Night and Day
“The best gift you are ever going to give someone— the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.”
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“She felt him trying to piece together in a laborious and elementary fashion fragments of belief, unsoldered and separate, lacking the unity of phrases fashioned by the old believers. Together they groped in this difficult region, where the unfinished, the unfulfilled, the unwritten, the unreturned, came together in their ghostly way and wore the semblance of the complete and the satisfactory. The future emerged more splendid than ever from this construction of the present.”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
“London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract. She has never known the clear-cut armies of the purer air. Leonard hurried through her tinted wonders, very much part of the picture. His was a grey life, and to brighten it he had ruled off a few corners for romance.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
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