“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Dead Woman Walking
“Oh my God, we’re not going to burn, are we?”
Witness
“He would never comprehend what I was going through unless I told him, but he’d never look at me the same way again if I did.”
Fool Me Once
“Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.”
The Ice Twins
“It’s not so much my own death that is intolerable, it’s the death of those around me. Because I love them. And part of me dies with them. Therefore all love, if you like, is a form of suicide.”
Dark Matter
“No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice. And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
Literary Lemonades 