“human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect”.”
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“Those were all big Words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when Words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying." - Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own making.”
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“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”
― Afterworlds
― Afterworlds
“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”
― Afterworlds
― Afterworlds
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