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“Trust is like glass. Lovely, but only a fool rests lots of weight on it.”
― Half a War
― Half a War
“This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.”
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
“...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.”
― City of Stairs
― City of Stairs
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.”
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'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.”
― Half a War
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