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“To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there is no impossibility of it being made so.”
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“I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
“He's the strongest man in the world.'
'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.”
― Pippi Longstocking
'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.”
― Pippi Longstocking
“They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”
― Full Tilt
― Full Tilt
“He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
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