“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“And blood-black nothingness began to spin. A system of cells interlinked, within cells interlinked, within cells interlinked within one stem. And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.”
― Pale Fire
― Pale Fire
“For whatsoever from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
Is with the tide unto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
― The Faerie Queene
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