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“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

tags: life, loneliness, memory, perception, perspective, time

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“In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
― Rose Tremain

tags: endings, planning, writing

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“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

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“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

tags: curiosity, ignorance, sympathy

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“The grey-rain curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: dreams, frodo, grey-havens

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