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Rowan MacBean
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A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Diggers
― Diggers
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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