

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
― 1984
― 1984

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...”
― Bad News
― Bad News

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”
― Freedom
― Freedom

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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