"It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them."

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Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.129, Vintage

Will Schwalbe

#Missing Someone Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.”

Source : "The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]".
“The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a soft rustle.”
“Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.”
“The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.”
“Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.”
“I'm reading and trying to find a television show that I really like, so I can start really working again and gain some momentum.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs”

Source : James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”
“One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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