๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

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"A man who grows the corn of his own land will never want, but he who forgets the burial ground will find that the earth itself is hungry."
โ€” Pet Semataryby Stephen King
"Maybe it's not death that's the tragedy, but the way we choose to live around it."
โ€” Pet Semataryby Stephen King
"You've got to learn that sometimes you can't fix everything. Sometimes the broken pieces are better left where they fell."
โ€” Pet Semataryby Stephen King
"There is a barrier in the woods, and beyond it, the truth is not a thing that can be spoken, only felt by those who have walked the path."
โ€” Pet Semataryby Stephen King
"Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But everything is really dependent on the way we perceive ourselves."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"The truth is a fire that burns away the dross of the world, and in the end, it is the only thing that remains."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was being chained to a wall and being tortured."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"Every human being who is alive has a dream, and that dream is a part of their heart, a part of their soul, and a part of their humanity."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."
โ€” Sense and Sensibility Annotatedby Jane Austen
"Sometimes we have to lose everything to find out who we really are. And sometimes we have to go to the end of the world to find our way back home."
โ€” Shantaramby Gregory David Roberts
"People aren't always who they seem to be. You can live with someone for years, share a bed and a life, and still not truly know them."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"The truth has a way of surfacing, even when you bury it deep beneath layers of lies and good intentions."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"I often think about the thin line between a normal life and a tragedy. Itโ€™s just one wrong turn, one bad decision, one person in the wrong place at the wrong time."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"Fear is a powerful motivator. It can make you do things you never thought yourself capable of, and it can force you to stay silent when every part of you wants to scream."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"Everyone in this town has something to hide. Some secrets are small, mere indiscretions, but others are dark enough to destroy everything."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"You can go home again, but you can never really go back to who you were before the world broke you."
โ€” Local Woman Missingby Mary Kubica
"The memory of her has become the memory of a life that I have lived myself, and in which I have been formed and scarred."
โ€” The Readerby Bernhard Schlink
"The crime was so monstrous that the people who had committed it were no longer people. They were monsters."
โ€” The Readerby Bernhard Schlink
"I wanted to be with her and away from her at the same time."
โ€” The Readerby Bernhard Schlink