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Book cover for Under the Pendulum Sun
“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

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
Juliette Lewis

David Foster Wallace
“If you really look at something, you can almost always tell what type of wage structure the person who made it was on.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel

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
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