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direction. “Lord, it is hotter than two rabbits screwin’ in a wool sock.”
“Actions create reactions. When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life’s moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“She was one of a group of girls he’d observed bloom from scraggly weeds into tropical beauties who churned the air around them into a dense humidity.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“as was so often the case with anger, it was really just fear projecting outwards. The society was nothing – it had no”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“played the piano every night and made the most superficial acquaintances with poets and painters and artists that often only lasted a night.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“There is nothing pleasant to be said about losing,” she began, “and the Obolensky boy is a pill. But, Sasha, my dear, why on earth would you give him the satisfaction?”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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