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"They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began."
"This change did not bring me into the community of the others, did not make me closer to anyone, but actually made me even lonelier. My reformation seemed to point in the direction ofDemian, but even this was a distant fate. I did not know myself, for I was too deeply involved. It had begunwith Beatrice, but for some time I had been living in such an unreal world with my paintings and my thoughtsof Demian that I'd forgotten all about her, too. I could not have uttered a single word about my dreams andexpectations, my inner change, to anyone, not even if I had wanted to. But how could I have wanted to?"
"Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings."
"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
"We move between two darknesses."
"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."
"Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."
"I don't know which is worse: that I'm home and so much is different, or that I'm home and so much feels the same."
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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
"I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species."
"I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin."
"Sometimes people don't understandthe promises they're making when they make them, I said.Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That'swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?"
"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
"Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, "Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean said, "They've got to see us," just before slamming his Porsche into another car. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers."
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