“Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!”
― A Streetcar Named Desire
― A Streetcar Named Desire
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“Three words, Ignis aurum probat. “Fire tests gold.” The rest of the phrase: “. . . and adversity tests the brave.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave”
― The White Tiger
― The White Tiger
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