

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
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“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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