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‘People call me eccentric, but then I call them boring, so it’s all relative.
“Listen to me. Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast. You better live a good life.”
― 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
“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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“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
“I see the past as it actually was," Maeve said. She was looking at the trees.
"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― The Dutch House
"But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we're not seeing it as the people we were, we're seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― The Dutch House
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