"Asshole, you were supposed to catch that!" Johnny shrugged. "Ducking's easier."
“I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.”
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.”
― No-No Boy
― No-No Boy
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
― Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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