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“Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Fear of the thing,” Maher murmurs, more to himself than to Omeir, “will be more powerful than the thing itself.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“When all you have is a shard of papyrus with a few words on it,” Rex says, “or a single line quoted in somebody else’s text, the potential of what’s lost haunts you. It’s like the boys who died in Korea. We grieve them the most because we never saw the men they would become.” Zeno thinks of his father: how much easier it was to be a hero when you no longer walked the earth.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“How does life get to be like this? Where she wears her sister's castoff underlinen and a thrice-patched dress while men like Kalaphates go about in silk and velvet with servants trotting behind? While foreigners like these have basins of milk and courtyards of geese and a different coat for every feast day? She feels a scream building inside her, a shriek to shatter glass.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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