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“What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come rushing to the rescue six months later. I wasn't a person to be saved only when it was a convenient time to swoop in.”
― Silver Sparrow
― Silver Sparrow
“The truth is, even if there was a why at the beginning, there's a point where any form of reason is lost.
The truth is, why I was doing it didn't matter; what mattered was that I couldn't stop.”
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The truth is, why I was doing it didn't matter; what mattered was that I couldn't stop.”
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“It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.”
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
“...that she loved me so much she couldn't help hating me; that at least once a week I still dream she is trying to kill me.”
― With or Without You
― With or Without You
“And wasn't this what she'd been after--this lightness that came galloping through, grabbing you by the waist and hauling you along with it? How could you not surrender yourself to it, even if you knew you'd end up sitting bruised in the dirt? She supposed there must be another way to experience that breathless rush of being alive--something inward, perhaps?--but she didn't know what it was or how to get there on her own.”
― The Forgetting Time
― The Forgetting Time
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