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“The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.”
“Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.”
“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”
“...you knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on...”
“This put me very close to Jay and it was as uncomfortable as it was mystifying. It was uncomfortable because I still wasnt sure I liked him all that much. It was mystifying because his intense star...”
“I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.”
“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”
“Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it might be something to do with those woodlanders. Now,...”
“Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?”
“Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted.”
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”
“However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used t...”
“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when th...”
“See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.”
“He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.”
“Ella!” the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.“Where am I?” I whisper again.The darkness...”
“What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for gran...”
“How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?”
“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a m...”
“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”
