“I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely”
“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
“Perhaps my greatest shame was that I could not show what I should, and I worried no one would ever know how much I cared. Crows”
“I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.”
“We rarely are conscious of those primitive anxieties that creep out from under reason. And the only way to banish them is to turn on all the lights.”
“To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.”
“as was true with every powerful person I had known, and there were but a few, his greatness made him humble and kind.”
“Το πραγματικό μέτρο της ανθρώπινης φύσης είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο φέρεται κανείς σε άτομα σαν κι αυτήν σε στιγμές που δεν τον βλέπει κανείς.”
“it's hard as hell to get politicians excited about what we do out here, or about what you do, kay."
"the problem is, the dead don't vote," i said.
"i've heard of cases where they did.”
“It is our task to faithfully teach our children the ways of God.”
“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
“I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now--
Well, now I kiss him.”
“There were only two men in her life she had ever really loved. It seemed neither of them could want her as she needed them to want her.”
“Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.”
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