311 Quotes About Sad-but-true


  • Author Dennis Lehane
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    Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.

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  • Author Callum Richards
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    Your heart is pure, but my every line is poor. Every second I write to you, I suddenly begin to hear the creaking floor boards. As the wind chimes, time goes by. Waiting, for that one moment to arrive. As I stand gaurd, I'll know it will get hard. But in the end, it will work out just like a deck of playing cards.

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  • Author Sloane Kennedy
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    Hawke was quiet for so long that I didn’t think he’d answer but then he finally looked at me. “If you could have a few more minutes with your parents, your brother, even knowing you were still going to lose them, would you want them…the minutes, I mean?”I nodded.

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  • Author María Luisa Bombal
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    ...Tal vez sea esa la vida de nosotros todos. ¡Ese eludir o perder nuestra verdadera vida encubriéndola tras una infinidad de pequeñeces con aspecto de cosas vitales!

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  • Author Ian McGuire
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    Cleverness, he thinks, will get you nowhere; it is only the stupid, the brilliantly stupid, who will inherit the earth.

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