"Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second."

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Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.206, Yearling

Louis Sachar

#Alive Quotes #Beats Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”

Source : Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.381, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?”
“I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.”
“She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.”
“I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.”
“Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually”
“There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.”
“As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.”

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