“My heart felt like a cold ember. Last night it flamed with hope. Today it was coated with ashes.”
“I could almost believe that a love as passionate as theirs had been would enable them to reach across the abyss between life and death and join hands for some precious moments every night.”
“recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman’s was not mine and”
“they had slept like babies. “Which proves how important it is for a man to return home,”
“El dia quedo teñido de negrura y, a partir de entonces, todos mis dias han sido negros”
“Queria desgarrar la Tierra, destruir el suelo hasta que no quedase nada”
“El Señor nos lo ha dado, el Señor nos lo ha quitado”
“Pero en alguien tan lleno de vida, amor y esperanza, la sombra de la muerte no se detiene por mucho tiempo, al contrario de lo que nos ocurre a quienes carecemos ya de esperanzas y sueños”
“The rest of my Thursday can be summarised thus:
- Nat tells me to bite her.
- I don't.
- I am forced to sit next to Toby for the entire two-and-a-half-hour return coach journey.
- He tells me that water is not blue because it reflects the sky, but actually because the molecular structure of the water itself reflects the colour blue and therefore our art teacher is wrong and the authorities should be alerted.
- I pull my jumper over my head.
- I stay under my jumper for the next two hours.”
“Your suffering was repayment for the karmic debt incurred then”
“Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what’s truly fuckworthy. As”
“Everyone crossed themselves at the mention of the IRS. Street gangs and the mob paled in comparison to fear of the tax code.”
“Half a thou too small,” he said. “The difference between Right and Wrong. Half a thou bigger, and it’ld be Right. As it is, it’s Wrong, and you can’t cheat about it.” He smiled again. “Too bad when God gives you the mind of an Inspector, isn’t it?”
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