Elfy Lyons

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Elfy’s Quotes

“Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

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“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

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“Because the difference between seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

tags: living-and-dying

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“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

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“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

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