“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I'm the glue that puts all her pieces together. All of those beautiful broken pieces are mine to fix. You're just a bystander.”
― Stoned
― Stoned
“But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things;”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.”
― Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
― Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
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