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Elizabeth Kostova
“Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home every day to my apartment. I have a moment now and then - as I peel an orange and take it from kitchen counter to table - when I feel almost a pang of contentment, perhaps at that raw colour.”
Elizabeth Kostova, The Swan Thieves

Jonathan Safran Foer
“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Stendhal
“Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?”
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

S.E. Hinton
“I didn't think much about that statement then. But later I would-I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I'm going crazy.”
S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now

Neil Gaiman
“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.”
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
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