... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.
I'd spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone i wasn't, that i had no idea who i was any more.
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Dorothy Koomson
Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.
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Sanjeev Himachali
Sometimes sharing isn’t caring
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Sonya Watson
Life rarely follows a straight line. Success is a process of trying, reacting, and changing.
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Ron Lizzi
When life goes on doesn’t it just trample over what was there before?
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Catherine Dexter
More Quotes By Sarah Winman
The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.
And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.
The choir sang and the old man sang and Drake couldn't sing, and suddenly he began to cry because of the music, because of the sound of the boys' voices, because of what they might turn into.
And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.
Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew.
