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Book cover for The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
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Michael Cox
“After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.”
Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
Rumi

Thich Nhat Hanh
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

C.S. Lewis
“A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.”
C.S. Lewis

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