"He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home."

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Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

Jamie O'Neill

#Love Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.”
“I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.”
“Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.”
“Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.”
“I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.”
“The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was.”
“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.”
“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”

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