“You don’t ever have to apologize for feeling, Marlin. Life’s not worth living if we don’t feel intensely.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“We’d find each other. I believe that. We might have a different story, but we’d find each other. Our souls were destined to meet, I think, long before our bodies were.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“Our love is stronger. More resilient. Happy people who fall in love learn to take that love for granted over time. We’ll never do that, because we’ll always remember what it was like to walk through the hellish battlefield alone. It’s always better with you, and our love is more potent because of”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“Love isn’t about loving a perfect person. No one is perfect. Everyone has flaws. You can fall in love with the flaws. You can love every atom in their body.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“There is no Marlin of yesterday. I exist only in this life—this wonderful life.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“If nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.” His”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“I wanted to save you, because you saved me,”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“We have the same hiding places—the same dark parts. I see these things in you, because I recognize them in myself. I see the sorrow behind your smile. I see the love behind your anger. I see the reason behind your silence. And I know we have a long way to go, but I want to go there with you.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“This is what I’ve been looking for. This is what was missing: my little bean, and the man who loves all of me. The man who loves every single atom in my body.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“Not everyone gets to be happy. Not everyone gets the fairytale romance.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“He loves me despite my flaws, so I can and should love him despite his. It’s not like I have anywhere else to go. He saved me. Simple as that. You should always stay with your hero.”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
“Is the type of love that results from two broken people weaker or worse off than regular love?”
― Amanda Richardson, quote from The Realm of You: A Novel
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“Thus the engine of self-pity began to turn.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from The Children Act
“She walked to the doorway and looked up at the sky; even with the dust she could see Hormozd, the large red planet, just beginning to sink behind the mountains. On the other side of the sky, the heavens were a shade lighter than they had been just a while ago. The sun was preparing to rise. "I will do what needs to be done."
"Of course, Princess. You would... you would make the warriors of old proud.”
― Liz Braswell, quote from A Whole New World
“I turn just as Aithinne leaps from a rock that juts out under the cliff. She lands with a soft thud, looking very pleased with herself. Her clothes are sopping wet, hair dripping, every inch of her covered in sand. And she doesn’t seem to mind one bit.
Aithinne makes her way across the larger beach rocks toward us, her movements graceful. “You both look miserable.”
“I’m cold and wet,” I say. “I feel wretched, and my blunderbuss is probably destroyed from the swim. No need to state the obvious.”
She glances at her brother. “And I suppose your face is just stuck that way?”
Kiaran pushes to his feet and I do the same. “What you see is the incessant, grave look of someone in possession of a sibling.”
“Ha ha.” Aithinne focuses her attention on me, tilting her head. “You know, I had a kyloe look at me exactly like that once. His hair was a similar color and everything.”
I glare at her. “You did not just compare me to a cow.”
“No, no. I compared your expression to one. Cows truly are majestic creatures, aren’t they”
― Elizabeth May, quote from The Vanishing Throne
“Dia tidak pernah takut pada laba-laba, sepeda yang kotor, atau jemarinya terkena panas oven--dan dia sering mengalami semua itu. Namun, berjalan ke ruangan yang sama dengan pria yang ditaksirnya? Itu menakutkan.”
― quote from Bliss
“Why must a man be always taking on Things not his own, as if he were a servant whose marketing-bag grows heavier and heavier from stall to stall and, loaded down, he follows and doesn’t dare ask: Master, why this banquet?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, quote from The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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