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“Drink, and you will sleep; sleep, and you will not sin; do not sin, and you will be saved; therefore, drink and be saved.”
“We don’t always love people who deserve it,” said Thomas quietly.
“I wonder sometimes if it is easier to be brave when one is young, before one knows truly how much there is to lose.”
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,” said Matthew. “It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.”
“Orange is not the color of seduction, Christopher. Orange is the color of despair, and pumpkins.
“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.”
“When it comes to a woman’s reputation, if she is suspected, she is guilty. That is the way the world works. I knew they would believe I was guilty, and now, no matter what we say, they’ll never believe I was innocent.
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. —J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister
