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“Everybody’s looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive.”
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
― The Bricks that Built the Houses
“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness).”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
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