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“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.”
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