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But lately he’d noticed an air of grace settling in his daughter. He wasn’t sure where it had come from—some girls grew into womanhood gracefully, others remained girls their whole lives—but it was there in Katie all of a sudden, a
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“Then we sallied forth into the streets arm in arm, continuing the topics of the day, or roaming far and wide until a late hour, seeking, amid the wild lights and shadows of the populous city, that infinity of mental excitement which quiet observation can afford.”
― The Complete Edgar Allan Poe: 148 Poems, Tales, Novels, Essays and Plays
― The Complete Edgar Allan Poe: 148 Poems, Tales, Novels, Essays and Plays
“Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.”
― The Devotion of Suspect X
― The Devotion of Suspect X
“Dead people can’t hurt you. They’ve left the big world and now reside only in the little world of your mind, where you’re God and you can pull their strings and make them come to life if you want, or set them in a corner until the next time you need that little something they bring. You can edit out the bad stuff and keep just those shining moments. It doesn’t always work that way and sometimes a piece of the bad will pop up and stick a needle in your brain. But that’s okay, because sometimes you need that.”
― Coffin Dirt: A Tale of Winter
― Coffin Dirt: A Tale of Winter
“When an amateur attempts to conceal something, the more complex he makes his camouflage, the deeper the grave he digs for himself. But not so a genius. The genius does something far simpler, yet something no normal person would even dream of, the last thing a normal person would think of doing. And from this simplicity, immense complexity is created.”
― The Devotion of Suspect X
― The Devotion of Suspect X
“our every utterance will reduce the amount of air left for thought and bring us closer to the moment when our thoughts cease altogether. Will it be preferable to remain mute to prolong our ability to think, or to talk until the very end? I don’t know.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
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