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It’s not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company.


“She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning when she woke up, for eighty years expecting to find him there, and only slowly growing accustomed to the fact that that side of the bed would always be empty. The moments when she had found something funny and turned to share the joke with him, only to be shocked anew that he was not there. The worst moments, when, sitting alone at breakfast, she had realized that she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes or the depth of his laugh; that like the sound of Jem's violin, they had faded into the distance where memories are silent.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess

“I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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