The ghosts that exert the most power in people__ lives-at least, the people I know__end to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
The Sound of Things Falling
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There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
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