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“And we went on to create and share a special, secret world of our own—a strange town surrounded by a high wall.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“At that time neither you nor I had names. The radiant feelings of a seventeen-year-old and a sixteen-year-old on the grass of a riverbank, in the summer twilight, were the only things that mattered. Stars would soon be twinkling above us, and they had no names either. The two of us sat there, side by side, on the riverbank of a nameless world.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“This might be one of the issues with eternity—not knowing where you should go next. But how much value was there in a love that didn’t seek the eternal?”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“Believe in the existence of your other self.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“Standing there alone, I always felt sad, a deep sadness I'd felt before, long, long ago. I remembered that sadness very well. A sadness that can't be explained, that doesn't melt away over time, that quietly leaves invisible wounds, in a place you cannot see. And how can you deal with something you can't see?”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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