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“Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.”
― Shadow of the Giant
― Shadow of the Giant
“Pain did curious things to him. It made him sensitive to the pain of others.”
― Lust For Life
― Lust For Life
“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.”
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“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him which we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place. In the end they come to fill out so completely the curve of his cheeks, to follow so exactly the line of his nose, they blend so harmoniously in the sound of his voice that these seem to be no more than a transparent envelope, so that each time we see the face or hear the voice it is our own ideas of him which we recognize and to which we listen.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
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