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Childhood, which seems endless to children, is the most finite span of moments in the history of a life.
“Once words and thoughts are poured into them, books are no longer just paper and ink and glue: They take on a kind of human vitality.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen...”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”
― Welcome to Night Vale
― Welcome to Night Vale
“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.”
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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