“That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
“I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.”
― Debbie Howells, quote from The Bones of You
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“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.”
― Katie Cotugno, quote from How to Love
“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, quote from We Are the Ants
“I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”
― Adam Silvera, quote from History Is All You Left Me
“Le veniva comandata di cambiare in un nuovo rimorso un mezzo di espiazione. La sventurata tentò tutte le strade per esimirsi dall’orribile commando; tutte, fuorché la sola ch’era sicura, e che le stava pur sempre aperta davanti. Il delitto è un padrone rigido e inflessibile, contro cui non divien forte se non chi se ne ribella interamente. A questo Gertrude non voleva risolversi; e ubbidì.”
― Alessandro Manzoni, quote from The Betrothed
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