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  • #1
    “Sometimes the things
    that matter to you won’t matter
    to anyone but you. And that’s redemption.”
    Gabrielle Calvocoressi

  • #2
    “You're not the first or last I've lied to, I'm lying to myself right now, You're still here...”
    Alejandro Escovedo

  • #3
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    John Banville, The Sea

  • #4
    Harold Pinter
    “There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
    Harold Pinter, Old Times

  • #5
    Shirley Jackson
    “Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #6
    Claire Keegan
    “You don’t ever have to say anything,” he says. “Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
    Claire Keegan, Foster

  • #8
    “That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed... - Harry Bemis”
    Burgess Meredith

  • #9
    “I wanna watch the ocean bend
    the edges of the sun then
    I wanna get swallowed up in
    An ocean of love”
    Lucinda Williams

  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #12
    Ivan Turgenev
    “It seemed to me both that I had known her for a long time and that I had known nothing and had not lived before she came.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #14
    Matt Haig
    “It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.”
    Matt Haig, The Midnight Library



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