April Genevieve Tucholke · 320 pages
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“People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“Your life is not your own, Vi,' she said. 'Don't you know that? It belongs to the people who love you. So you need to take better care of it.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn't be both.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“I loved him. God help me, I loved him more than a girl has ever loved a boy. More than anyone has ever loved anyone.”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn
“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from الحرب والسلم [War and Peace]
“...aspirava a uma paz que só a inocência na solidão pode proporcionar, a paz de um solitário inocente, que não abandonou nem traiu ninguém para estar só, um solitário que se conserva à margem do sangue e do sofrimento, sem que lhe possam ser pedidas contas.”
― Stig Dagerman, quote from De dömdas ö
“What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”
― Gary Chapman, quote from The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
“always struck him how much more effective silence was than words. If the effect you were after was to disconcert.”
― Louise Penny, quote from Glass Houses
“The Bible says we should know a tree by the fruit it bears," Makepeace replied, a little sharply. "If you burn my hand off, what should I think of you?”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Skinful of Shadows
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