Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
("Memoirs of a Geisha")
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.Arthur Golden
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they'd nearly drowned out everything else.
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
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I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
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Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
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