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Natalie is Currently Reading

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Gas und Gas Zweiter Teil

by Georg Kaiser

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Amphitryon

by Heinrich von Kleist

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Leben des Galilei

by Bertolt Brecht

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Natalie’s Quotes

“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower

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“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

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