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“...much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success--on tactical errors and pipe dreams.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.”
― The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
― The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life
“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
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