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“It was one of those imponderables of existence that months, even years, can go by without anything significant happening, and then suddenly a cluster of hours comes along or even minutes, that can blow a hole in time a mile wide”

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Book:The Dark Fields

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The Dark Fields

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“Now, how far away did Abingdon Square feel, as though it and she and the restaurant, and Maria Malibran, and the sudden false rainfall by the flickering lights of the Miramar hotel sign belonged to another life, a life unlived, a life I knew had turned its back to me and was being nailed to the wall.”

Loss Sad Another Life Andre Aciman Enigma Variations Missed Opportunities Missed Chances Alternate Life

Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

“Oh Susie, I often think that I will try to tell you how very dear you are, and how I'm watching for you, but the words won't come, though the tears will, and I sit down disappointed. Yet, darling, you know it all-- then why do I seek to tell you? I do not know. In thinking of those I love, my reason is all gone from me, and I do fear sometimes that I must make a hospital for the hopelessly insane, and chain myself up there so I won't injure you.”

Poetry Letters Emily Dickinson

Book:Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Source: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“It's called a culling song. In some ancient culture, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land. It was sung to warriors injured in accidents or the very old or anyone dying. It was used to end misery and pain. It's a lullaby.”

Sad Fiction Novel Bittersweet Culling

Book:Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“It's called a culling song. In some ancient cultures, they sang it to children during famines or droughts, anytime the tribe had outgrown its land. It was sung to warriors injured in accidents or the very old or anyone dying. It was used to end misery and pain. It's a lullaby.”

Sad Fiction Novel Bittersweet Culling Song

Book:Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“i am that person which everybody replaces after a while”

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Author:warisha khan

“And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.' Silence again. 'Perhaps I am not yet ready to speak of them as strangers,' I said. 'If it makes you feel any better, I don't think either of us ever will be.”

Regret Sad Looking Back Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Oliver And Elio

Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name

“I was going to walk him outside the hotel lobby and then stand and watch him go. Any moment now we were going to say goodbye. Suddenly part of my life was going to be taken away from me now and would never be given back.”

Sad Separation Goodbye Parting Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Oliver And Elio Taken Away Lost Forever

Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name

“You never did forgive me, did you?' 'Forgive? There was nothing to forgive. If anything, I'm grateful for everything. I remember good things only.' I had heard people say this in movies. They seemed to believe it.”

Memories Sad Forgiveness Memory Dialogue Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Faking It Oliver And Elio

Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name

“Next to it on the wall was a framed postcard of Monet's berm. I recognized it immediately. 'It used to be mine, but you've owned it far, far longer than I have.' We belonged to each other, but had lived so far apart that we belonged to others now. Squatters, and only squatters, were the true claimants to our lives.”

Sad Lost Love Call Me By Your Name Andre Aciman Oliver And Elio

Book:Call Me by Your Name

Source: Call Me by Your Name

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