“Believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there’s a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
“It’s always like that in stories: bad things happen but then it all ends happily. And this is a story.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
“There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
“Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
“All words are written in the same ink, ‘flower’ and ‘power’, say, are much the same, and though I might write ‘blood, blood, blood’ all over the page the paper would not be stained nor would I bleed. Philippe Jacottet, ‘Chant d’en bas”
― Inkspell
― Inkspell
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