"People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that."

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Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.86, Random House

Rachel Joyce

#Loneliness Quotes #Car Quotes #People Quotes

“Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.”
“The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.”
“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
“Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.”
“So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.”
“I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.”
“I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.”
“The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.”

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