“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
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“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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