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As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope—for who could ever learn to love a beast?
“You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
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