“When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?”
Jack McDevitt book Ancient Shores
Source: Ancient Shores (1996), Chapter 13 (pp. 124-125)
“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
— Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002)
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