Your own hands falling out to catch youbefore you hit the ground. All the waysyou save yourself even when youdon't want to. Love is the way your body fights tokeep you alive. Day after day after day.
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Joseph Heller
Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully.
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Diana Gabaldon
The world is vicious, too huge to care about even its own survival
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Richard Powers
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
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Megan Whalen Turner
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was...
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Mohsin Hamid
More Quotes By Darshana Suresh
She asks me how my heart is, and I say, 'beating.'That's never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that.
Like you're taking the universe by thethroat and saying, look, I know Ican never be as big as you, but yousure as hell can't stop me from trying. Like taking the sadness and wringingit out and saying, look, I knowyou won't leave me alone, but...
The lonely? Where's that from? Sadness' best friend. Sadness broughtit along and I couldn't turn it away, so I let it multiply in my pulse instead.
Where did you get your sadness from? I picked it up on the side of the road. Itwas bleeding and scratched and keeninglike a mangled thing, but it looked toobeautiful for me to just walk away.
I'm sorry that when you say 'love', I always hear'heartbreak'.
