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“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”
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“When I wake up, I open my eyes very slowly, so anything that may be in my room has a chance to hide.”
― Deep Dark Fears
― Deep Dark Fears
“Books smell, they creak, they talk. You hold in your hand now a living, breathing, whispering thing, a book. Philip”
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
“What?" she asks, but I don't answer. Instead I kiss her, one time, and try to tell her in that single gesture everything that she'll forget as soon as she turns away. I tell her I love her. I tell her I'll miss her. And then I let her go.”
― Girl of Nightmares
― Girl of Nightmares
“I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.”
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
― Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase
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