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“The bad days were when the world wouldn’t stay out of his head, when everyone he looked at wore a swirling crown of color, and everything he touched carried the charge of someone else’s life.”
― Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

“I want to love everyone', I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by little. Gradually it turns bluish. [..] I had never seen anything as beautiful as the translucent leaves and grass. Gently, I reached out to the touch of the grass.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“I have followed Hamlet for so long, so blindly. Now that he is gone, I do not remember how to walk on my own.”
― Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

“The hero wasn’t me, any more than the villain was Harry McLauglin, forty-year-old forest ranger and father of two. We were just the matrices that held the pattern, the straw and clay from which myth was built. And now that we are only straw and clay again, the world does not know what to do with us.”
― Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves