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“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― The Bad Beginning
― The Bad Beginning
“A hero can be fool, he's still a hero.”
― Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
― Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
“If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.”
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.”
― The Bad Beginning
― The Bad Beginning
“The Moon was just a sickle of light, hanging in the sky among a wild spray of stars. All that cosmic luminance, traveling for millions of years, amounted to nothing more than a pale patch on the carpet.”
― Black Moon
― Black Moon
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