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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
― The Hundred Secret Senses
― The Hundred Secret Senses
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
― The Secret of Lost Things
― The Secret of Lost Things
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
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“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
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― H is for Hawk
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Bert’s 2025 Year in Books
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