@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes," Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
@anaiskireiholm.bsky.social"The self I feared was the self waiting to save me."
#blackandwhite #bookquotes
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.”
@daxcornwell.bsky.social"Life is never like the films. We don't always get the closure we deserve."
- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘
#bookquotes #theambergristrail #quotes #booksky #booksofbluesky #life #grief #closure #mentalhealth #relationships #films
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“The disaster of being old was in not feeling safe to venture anywhere, of seeing freedom put out of reach.”
- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
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@nextgreatread.bsky.social“There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.”
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.”
@anniewithbooks.bsky.social“In nature, he thinks, there is no such thing as ugliness. It's like he tried to tell Margaret in the car, beauty belongs to god, and ugliness to human beings.”
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
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