“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“But time has a way of folding itself, like a map, distances and journeys and hours and minutes tucked neatly away to leave just the realness of the before and the now, as close as hands pressed on the either side of a rice-paper door.”
― Girls of Paper and Fire
― Girls of Paper and Fire
“Seize the wind," I whispered. "Don't become the kite that never flies.”
― Spin the Dawn
― Spin the Dawn
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