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1 " he realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died. "
― Peter Robinson , Cold is the Grave (Inspector Banks, #11)
2 " If we all knew the consequences of every decision we made, we’d probably never make any. "
3 " You can keep on assigning blame here, there and everywhere, but when it comes right down to it, we’re responsible for what we do ourselves. "
4 " about how we are all “emigrants from a country we remember too little of,” how important to us are the fragments we do remember clearly and how we spend our time trying to reconstruct ourselves from these. "
5 " lost a bit at a time, over the years; it didn’t just happen overnight. But there were intense experiences, epiphanies of a kind, that brought about quantum leaps. "
6 " realized with a shock that the loss of innocence never stopped happening, that he was still losing it, that it was like a wound that never healed, and he would probably go on losing it, drop by drop, until the day he died. "
7 " He always had that same empty, lonely feeling after he’d spoken to someone he loved over the telephone, as if the silence had somehow become charged with that person’s absence. "
8 " when you visit a place you used to live in for a long time, you see it differently; you become more like a tourist in your own land. "
9 " You can’t spend your life sulking over all the mistakes you’ve made. You’d never bother getting out of bed in the morning. "
