Elliot Benson
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“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I am haunted by humans.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Love does not work in convenience. Or any kind of sense.”
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
“Magic was at its core, she said, a kind of madness. It was a willingness to look at the corporeal world and to see it only as the story up to that point. That everything that followed could be changed. Rocks fell because the belief that they would fall was so strong. But that belief wasn’t binding. It didn’t have to be binding anyway. For a price.”
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
― The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
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