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“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
― A Million Little Pieces
― A Million Little Pieces
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality and an alternative reality themselves. They were so old, and so strange, that they had found a kind of existence independent of the pages they occupied. The world of the old tales existed parallel to ours, but sometimes the walls separating the two became so thing and brittle that the two worlds started to blend into each other. That was when the trouble started. That was when the bad things came. That was when the Crooked Man began to appear to David.”
― The Book of Lost Things
― The Book of Lost Things
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