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“Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.”
― The Eyre Affair
― The Eyre Affair
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
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“There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.”
― White Night
― White Night
“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
― First Among Sequels
― First Among Sequels
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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