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The less I could do, the more I wanted. Wanted things I couldn’t have and I wanted things I couldn’t even think up yet, but I could feel myself wanting. And that feeling, it’s like itching. Like to drive you crazy.” She shakes her head
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“She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.”
― The Soul Thief
― The Soul Thief
“And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.”
― Unaccustomed Earth
― Unaccustomed Earth
“Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.”
― The Visible Man
― The Visible Man
“... la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.”
― The Last King of Scotland
― The Last King of Scotland
“It occurred to Soo-Ja that if she gave him permission, he'd kiss her right then and there. But she realized that all along, what she really wasn't to have him in the present - how could she, married woman that she was, married man that he was — but to rewrite the past, have him go back in time and create a version that allowed them to kiss. To be able to kiss him did not seem to take much — a step forward, the angling of her face. But, in fact, it required rearranging the molecules of every interaction they had ever had, from the very first day they met.”
― This Burns My Heart
― This Burns My Heart
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