“Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.”
― Bitterblue
― Bitterblue
“...and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him, The plural of elf is elves. A wave of happiness came over me. It felt giddy to be part of it all. To be drinking a cup of coffee like a normal person. I wanted to shout out: The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
“For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.”
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“It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels”
― Hey Nostradamus!
― Hey Nostradamus!
“She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
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