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“I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified. ”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“You wear so much armour by daylight that, by night, you can carry it no longer. By night, you are only flesh. And even the flesh of a queen is prone to fear.
In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it. It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree