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Still I promise myself, ‘Next time I will do better’ in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a ‘next time’.
“In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
― Soul Music
― Soul Music
“Goddammit Donut!”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“It hit me who they were talking about. Mrs. Neville. My Mrs. Neville. The teacher who’d said I should enter the short-story contest this year. Good-bye, she’d said as I’d left her room on the first day of summer. Not see you next year or see you in September, but a firm and final good-bye. She must’ve known she was dying, as she sat behind that desk in summer’s light, and she had known that for her there would be no new class of grinning young monkeys in September.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.”
― Boy's Life
― Boy's Life
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Different Seasons
― Different Seasons
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