“She felt almost guilty that she had handed some of her grief to him, and then she felt close to him for his willingness to take it and hold it, in all its rawness, all its dark confusion.”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn
“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
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“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.”
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
― The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― The Accidental Tourist
― The Accidental Tourist
“Even though she let these thoughts run as fast as they would, she still stopped when her mind moved towards real fear or dread or, worse, towards the thought that she was going to lose this world for ever, that she would never have an ordinary day again in this ordinary place, that the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar.”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn
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