Eynhallow
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I used to ask her how she always found the positive side of things, and she’d say that life was too short, and there’s time enough for misery in the grave. Hold onto the sun while it’s shining, she’d say,
“I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl’s morality story wasn’t embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don’t have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.”
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
― Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
“You’ll meet her. She’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.”
― El laberinto del fauno
― El laberinto del fauno
“What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA”
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