“No. No, I’m not.” Then she said: “I’m somebody else. I just don’t know who that somebody else is yet.” “Well that’s what journeys are for,” Diamanda Murkitt said.”
― Abarat
― Abarat
“We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don’t actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we’re killing each other over these imaginings.”
― A New World
― A New World
“We can never fully know the people we love. When we lose them, there will always be more we could have seen, but that's what I'm trying to tell you.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“Call me cynical, but falling in love has to be the most delusional thing a person can do.”
― Eyes on Me
― Eyes on Me
“The problem of course is that it isn’t always possible to be kind to idiots, because they’re idiots.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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