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“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.”
― A Spy in the House of Love
― A Spy in the House of Love
“I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.”
― The Weight of Water
― The Weight of Water
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,”
― A Wrinkle in Time
― A Wrinkle in Time
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
― ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”
― The House at Riverton
― The House at Riverton
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