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“You can cling to this world for a thousand years and still be plucked out of it in a breath.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Monkeys, moose, cows, dogs, butterflies, buffaloes. What we would give to have the ruined lives of animals tell a human story - when our lives are in themselves the story of animals.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land