

“Sometimes, sad things serve as a gentle reminder that we still feel.”
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak

“I guess that’s what killing people does to your soul. Each life you take also takes something from you until, eventually, there is nothing left.”
― Savage Princess
― Savage Princess

“I just mean…not everything that makes us hurt needs to be forgotten or banished. It hurts because it mattered. And things that mattered once, will always matter,”
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything.”
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“I think that’s the difference between a disaster and an adventure,” he says. “It’s the people you experience them with.”
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
― An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak
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