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“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.”

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Book:The Wanderess
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“She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Full fathom five thy father lies. Little lamb, who made thee? Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. On that best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Farther and farther, all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”

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Book:A God in Ruins
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“I loved you once. It was a love so powerful, so mighty Yet so tender, so ethereal, so genuine, A love which, at the time, I believed Had circumstances been different, It would have been extraordinaryanan A love so passionate, I would willingly die for you If I had to. Because your life Means more to me than mine. I believed you also loved me once In the same way, with the same passion. I believed our love Was from another time, That it was an eternal love, Where with each rebirth, We would reencounter each other again, That your love for me was so mighty, You would also give your life for me. I was wrong... As much as I would have taken The blade of a sword for you That you would live, I realised you would never Do the same for me. You love yourself more than you love me. I would sacrifice my life for you, But you would not do so for me. That if only one of us could stay on the boat, You would push me off for self preservation. So I will make my ultimate sacrifice. You don't need to push me off. I am jumping off the vessel so you will live. Because both you and I agree Your life is worth more than mine. But in jumping, I'm taking back my love for you. You can't have it anymore. Because you shan't have it both ways. My love for you dies with me at the bottom Of the sea.”

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Author:Onur Taşkıran
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“For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together”

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Book:The Keeper of Lost Causes
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“It's one of my jobs to fret about his arteries, one of the many personal responsibilities that men subconsciously off-load onto their wives, not because they're all jerks but because that's just part of the labor agreement. Unmarried men, it's true, die fatter, younger, filthier, sadder, than their married friends, if they even have friends, because that's another thing a wife is responsible for, friends, except I'm a bust in that department, which is why I have to go extra hard on his arteries.”

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Book:Motherthing
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“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”

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Book:Impromptu Scribe
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“La marea comienza a descender. Los árboles afirman nuevamente sus raíces en la tierra. Las olas de sangre que golpeaban mis costados se apaciguan y mi corazón echa anclas, semejante a un barco cuyas velas se deslizan, cayendo suavemente sobre el puente inmaculado. El juego ha concluido. Es hora de ir a tomar el té”

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Book:The Waves
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