"Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows……" — R.J. Ellory
"Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls."
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8 Quotes by R.J. Ellory
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Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love…
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Don’t ever stop writing. This is the way the world will find out who you are.
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Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.
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Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.
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