

“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.”
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"
― Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars”
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
― Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“Being trapped in the San José “is a test that God set before us so that we can think about the things we’ve done in our lives that were wrong,” the Pastor says. “If we get out of this place, it will be like being reborn into the world.”
― Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
― Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
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