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“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“Don’t ever try to change her,’ my mother said, before she died. ‘The tusks of an elephant will never grow out of a dog’s mouth. You know that.”
― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking

“Sometimes people forget to be sympathetic and instead they blame you for everything, even for the things you did when you had no idea they were wrong.”
― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking

“I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.”
― Mo Hayder, The Devil of Nanking