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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“No one, no one really knows loss until it's someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it's gone... it's as if it's been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin' carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.”

“And that's the thing with lies, they're much easier to believe when it's an idea you like.”

“The problem with raising strong women is that they make formidable opponents.”

“I see that he's regressed too, to when I was a kid and I couldn't cross a room without stubbing my toe. Living on a boat teaches you to be steady on your feet. But that's what coming home means, doesn't it? You're always going to be who you were then.”

"Love," Cardan goes on. "That force that compels us to be sometimes better and often worse. That power by which we can all be bound.
That which we ought to fear and yet most desire.”

“Love can be lost, and I am done losing.”

"Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true."

‘"Do you know what I admire about you?"
Truly, I cannot imagine what he will say next.
"That you never stopped being angry," he tells me. "It can be brave to hate. Sometimes it's like hope."’

“Isn’t that the very definition of luck - to have arrived in time?”

“I feel a strong persuasion, this morning, that I shall soon be abroad. I ought to travel. I am tired of doing nothing, I want a change.”

‘"But, my dear sir," cried Mr. Weston, "if Emma comes away early, it will be breaking up the party."
"And no great harm if it does," said Mr. Woodhouse. "The sooner every party breaks up, the better."’

he is such a mood

“I could not excuse a man's having more music than love—more ear than eye—a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.”

“And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want”

“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.”

“Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. It's a song we've heard.”

“There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again.
You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.”

“Love is where you find the meaning. Those seven years I was with her contained more than anything else. Do you understand? You can take all the years before and since and weigh them next to those, and they wouldn't stand a chance.”

“There comes a time when the only way to start living is to tell the truth. To be who you really are, even if it is dangerous”

“Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”

“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

"’Anxiety’, Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom’.”

“I said nothing. I was angry, yes, but as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards.”

“It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you. Strange how every object or word can house a ghost.”

“But as you get older, Anton, you realise that you never get away with things. The human mind has its own... prisons. You don't have a choice over everything in life.”

“We kissed and I closed my eyes and inhaled lavender and her, and I felt so terrified and so in love that I realised - the terror, the love - were one and the same thing.”

“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.”

“It is lonely, this world, without a friend.”