Louisa Hall Quotes

#1. This is all we get, I thought. Just quick moments of brightness that get taken away before you understand what you've been given. Then

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#2. . . .poetry by Eliot. There's a lulling thing in his voice that makes me feel as if a spell has been cast that shall wake us all so that we might fly out of the mirror and speak to each other clearly at last.

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#3. If there's one thing I've learned through my years of mistakes, it's that even the most perfect patterns becomes false when it goes unbroken for too long.

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#4. Of what importance are the thwarted desires of awkward young men, when the oceans are rising, the deserts are coming, and families are trading their freedoms for houses?

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#5. Below me, clusters of palm trees were painted green-gold. Tousled by the wind, their fronds resembled tangles of unspooled cassette tape.

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#6. They felt their cruelties had no implications. They excluded me with no sense of scale. I at least knew my importance.

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#7. I fretted so much about my earthly interactions that I had very few interactions to speak of.

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#8. I'd learned my lesson well by that point. Why make a bad situation worse by calling it names to its face?

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#9. When I say something, I mean it, whether or not it's the right answer. When I tell you I love you I mean it.

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#10. Our primary function is speech: questions, and responses selected from memory according to a formula. We speak, but there is little evidence of real comprehension.

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#11. Listen, whiz mathletes: this is why English class is important. One day a terrible quiet will settle over your house. There will be no words. Then you'll want to tell stories. A

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#12. One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.

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#13. Although Wittgenstein did say, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

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#14. We can break step. Magnificent living beings that we are, we humans are free to unravel our patterns.

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#15. Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?

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#16. I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.

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#17. OK," she said. "Let's try. But remember one thing. You're going to lose interest. At some point, it will happen. You don't think so now, but you'll get distracted. You have to stay with me. If we have a family together, you have to be here to help.

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