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“She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“One day I’d like to find the story of my past, and I hope it’s something more magical than being unwanted and abandoned as a baby. I hope it’s a tale filled with wonder, that explains who I am and why I’m different, why I hear the trees whispering secrets, and why I always feel the forest, pulling me in.”
― The Girl Who Speaks Bear
― The Girl Who Speaks Bear
“What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“She had locked something away,
something deep inside.
A truth that she had once known,
but chose to forget.
And she couldn't break free.
So I decided to search for it.
I went deep into the recess of her mind
and found that secret place.
And I broke in..”
― Inception: The Shooting Script
something deep inside.
A truth that she had once known,
but chose to forget.
And she couldn't break free.
So I decided to search for it.
I went deep into the recess of her mind
and found that secret place.
And I broke in..”
― Inception: The Shooting Script
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