“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
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“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
“Nature is fine in love, fine as in thin and delicate, as in not firm. We move to attach, more than we understand, to things and people we love that we feel might be an anchoring point for this fine, precious love. When those anchors disappear, a part of us disappears, too. Well, that’s how it was for me at least.”
― OCD, the Dude, and Me
― OCD, the Dude, and Me
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