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“I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.” - The Picture of Dorian Gray, O. Wilde

Zemo: I made tea. Bucky: I don’t want tea. Zemo: I did not make tea for you. This is my tea. Bucky: Then why are you telling me? Zemo: It is a conversation starter. Bucky: That’s a lousy conversation starter. Zemo: Oh, is it? We are conversing. Checkmate.

“I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.”

— Virginia Woolf 

"I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods."

—Rebecca Solnit

Fizz: I made coffee.

Morbos: I don’t want coffee.

Fizz: I didn’t make you coffee. This is my coffee.

Morbos: Then why did you tell me?

Fizz: It’s a conversation starter.

Morbos: It’s a horrible conversation starter.

Fizz: Oh, is it? We’re conversing. Checkmate.

“This is not goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“I don’t know how to be loved. I don’t know how to love.”

— Daul Kim, from I Like to Fork Myself

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)