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Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face.
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“She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.”
― The Drowning Faith
― The Drowning Faith
“Who is the true god?" ... She's the only divine thing he's ever believed in.”
― The Drowning Faith
― The Drowning Faith
“I cannot survive without reading.”
― A Court of Silver Flames
― A Court of Silver Flames
“He can’t take his eyes off of her. She’s the most magnificent thing he’s ever seen.”
― The Drowning Faith
― The Drowning Faith
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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