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“She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“history is something you look back on, not something you really feel at the time. In the moment, you're just... living.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“There are a hundred kinds of silence. There’s the thick silence of places long sealed shut, and the muffled silence of ears stoppered up. The empty silence of the dead, and the heavy silence of the dying. There is the hollow silence of a man who has stopped praying, and the airy silence of an empty synagogue, and the held-breath silence of someone hiding from themselves. There is the awkward silence that fills the space between people who don’t know what to say. And the taut silence that falls over those who do, but don’t know where or how to start.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.'
'That's because it is.'
'So why live at all?'
'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
― The Midnight Library
'That's because it is.'
'So why live at all?'
'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
― The Midnight Library
“Do you ever think "how did I end up here?" Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn? And you know that there are many routes that could have helped you out, because you hear all the people on the outside of the maze who made it through, and they are laughing and smiling. And sometimes you get a glimpse of them through the hedge. A fleeting shape through the leaves. And they seem so damn happy to have made it and you don't resent them, but you do resent yourself for not having their ability to work it all out. Do you? Or is this maze just for me?”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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