Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss. I loved Gisela, and we were
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“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing

“By the smallest of one's actions one can restore some sense of order to the world.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow

“Faces change with life's toll, but eyes remain a window to what was...”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing

“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing

“Because well he knew that when one is traveling abroad for the first time, one does not wish to look back on laborsome instructions, weighty advice, or tearful sentiments. Like the memory of the simple soup, when one is homesick what one will find most comforting to recall are those lighthearted little stories that have been told a thousand times before.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow

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