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“Worship still happens here, thinks Jasper. Not of us four, but worship of music itself. Music frees the soul from the cage of the body. Music transforms the Many to a One. The Marshall stacks vibrate his skeleton. We touch something divine. His Stratocaster speaks of ecstasy and despair. We’re not gods, but we are channels for something that is godlike.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“She'd climbed into his heart without thinking, the way that a kid idly tongues a loose tooth.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“Every seven years, the cells in our bodies completely replace themselves and we become entirely different people.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land