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“His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I felt my way up the cliffs to the south until I found a patch of machair a few yards long and a few wide, where I pitched my tent and settled to sleep. The stars stood sharp above. It felt odd to be on rock again, not sea, to think of the ground on which I lay extending down to the floor of the Minch. Lying there, I could still feel the day at sea, blood and water slopping about in my bag of skin, the tidal churn of my liquid body, a roll and sway in the skull. My mind beat back north against the current, thinking of the puffins' flight, the lines we leave behind us, the spacious weave, our wake, then sleep.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“There was something stunned in the faces of the children, blinking and tentative. The slow, dark, dull submarine of the lives in which they were the human cargo had abruptly surfaced. Their blood was filled with a kind of crippling nitrogen of wonder.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.”
― David Levithan, Every Day