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“Almost almost forgot. Remember, no walking down the silver corridor when it’s dark. No looking behind the emerald curtain. No staring portraits in the eye. No eating things without salt. And no trusting the Salamander.”
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Emily Hahn
“Nobody said not to go.”
Emily Hahn

Dorothy Parker
“She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.”
Dorothy Parker

Joe Hill
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
Joe Hill, Horns

Shirley Jackson
“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!”
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Colum McCann
“One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.”
Colum McCann, TransAtlantic
tags: clouds

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