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Rafael Sabatini
“In Major Sands the intelligence was absent; but like most men in his case he was not aware of it.”
Rafael Sabatini, The Black Swan

Susan Orlean
“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die. But if you can take something from that internal collection and share it—with one person or with the larger world, on the page or in a story recited—it takes on a life of its own.”
Susan Orlean, The Library Book

Rafael Sabatini
“In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.”
Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

Brit Bennett
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

Hilary Mantel
“Our possessions outlast us, surviving shocks we cannot; we have to live up to them, as they will be our witnesses when we are gone.”
Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

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