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“Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything”

“He knew how frail is the memory of loved ones. How we close our eyes and speak to them. How we long to hear their voices once again, and how those voices and those memories grow faint and faint until what was flesh and blood is no more than echo and shadow. In the end perhaps not even that.”

“What is wrong with the story is that it is not a true story. Men will have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world will be many different ways for them, but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.”

I ❤️ John Grady

“You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different”

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.”

“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”

“Because this scene not only shows a life lived outside of me. It hurtles me back to a void, to nonexistence, really, in the cruelest way. I cannot stand the idea that he could be taken from me. That I could lose him. I discover for the first time —poor idiot—this stabbing pain of love.”

“I’m surprised someone would desire a path that would leave her in loneliness. Until recently, I didn’t think humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”