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I was down in New Orleans last year and there were so many fake Lestats swaggering around in pirate shirts and cheap boots, you wouldn’t believe it.
“Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.”
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
― The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
“That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“This is, after all, my own peculiar magic--whatever circumstances I find myself in, I always land on my feet.”
― The Light Between Worlds
― The Light Between Worlds
“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
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