Love Quote by Jess Walter

““The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.””

Jess Walter

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“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”

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Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

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“And Pasquale forced himself to look away from her then. It was like prying a magnet off steel, but he did it: he turned forward in the boat, closed his eyes, still seeing her standing there in his memory. He shook with the strain of not looking back until they rounded the breakwater into the open sea and Pasquale exhaled,…

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