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“It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!"

"You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.”
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

“Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient