“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”
― My Life Next Door
― My Life Next Door
“...an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political.”
― The Islanders
― The Islanders
“If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.”
― The Neverending Story
― The Neverending Story
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