"Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway."

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Source : Donna Tartt (2002). “The Little Friend”, Vintage

Donna Tartt

#Lonely Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Gone Quotes

“In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.”
“In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.”
“Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.”
“The harmonica is a great instrument.”
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to earn a living. Luckily we spoke quite a bit of French at home so it wasn't too difficult for me to write in my adopted language.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned.”
“I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.”

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