“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
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“Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.”
― Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
― Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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