“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.”
― It
― It
“But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.”
― It
― It
“I’m the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don’t blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.”
― It
― It
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