Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.
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Jacqueline Winspear
They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.
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Bilal
The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
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Sarah Addison Allen
She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
…He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could.
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Thomm Quackenbush
More Quotes By David Mitchell
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi...
