“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”
— Henning Mankell, The White Lioness (via books-n-quotes)
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“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit with a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.”
— E.R. Frank, Life Is Funny
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“Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via books-n-quotes)