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“Such a little childTo send to be a priestling...Icy poverty”
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and ...”
“In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.”
“Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.”
“In troubled times, one wishes for a sound sleep more than usual, but on the contrary, realizing its amplified importance, sleep smugly impedes all attempts to woo it.”
“I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.”
“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”
“SONG OF DAWNI saw the sun rise by accident.It was a horrible sight.Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refugein a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,at the dawn of another day,that brought me closer ...”
“The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.”
“He wanted to go home to the place that he hated.”
“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”
“Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.”
“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and...”
“...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.”
“Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.”
“It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?”
“The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.”
“Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.”
“education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation”
