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The Troop
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But these eyes harbored a remote intellect, a keen awareness. Which was the scariest part: this man had to confront the devastation of his body. He was cognizant of his own ruin. How could he possibly cope with that?
“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Crush
I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Crush
“He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored.
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The wind of my life was blowing me away.
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I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.”
― Giovanni’s Room
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The wind of my life was blowing me away.
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I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.”
― Giovanni’s Room
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