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‘People call me eccentric, but then I call them boring, so it’s all relative.
“But no matter their [carousels] colors, the horses all go at the same speed as they circle round and round. They start together. They finish together, too. Nobody is first and nobody is last. Everyone is equal when you ride a carousel.”
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“art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They're like weeds, always finding their way up.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“You know,” she’d said, “they say people are like snowflakes, each one unique, but I think they’re more like skies. Some are cloudy, some are stormy, some are clear, but no two are ever quite the same.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“history is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just... living.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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