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“On the other side of the window night had fallen, and dark figures moved past in the street with downcast faces and empty bags, and empty stomachs, I guessed. But we didn’t see them. It was so much better on this side of the glass. So much warmer, so much softer.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“Finishing my pathetic appeal, I paused pathetically.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White nights

“I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year. I shall certainly come here to-morrow, just here to this place, just at the same hour, and I shall be happy remembering to-day.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White nights

“The idea had been that he would tidy up up there, but when he arrived and was confronted with a lifetime’s worth of documentation and mementos, then he lost his purpose and began simply investigating himself.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Librarianist