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“There is a time when anything is possible: a time when we could be whoever we dream of being. Then life gets in the way”
― M.L. Stedman, A Far-flung Life

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”
― Stephen King, It

“There is no special protection when you cross that invisible line from your ordinary life to that parallel world where tragedies happen. It happens just like this. You don’t become someone else. You’re still exactly the same. Everything around you still smells and looks and feels exactly the same.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror