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“Sometimes, in life as in dreams, the world tries to communicate a truth to us, but in a manner so subtle that it takes us time to figure out.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“We need our literary heroes. Life is dark and complicated but they shine out. They’re the beacons that we follow.”
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“(...) Books retained traces of all those who read them, in a form of flakes of skin, hairs visible and minute, the oils from the fingertips, even blood and tears, so that just as a book became part of the reader, so, too, did a reader become part of the book.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“Women have a special facility for madness. We’re encouraged to go mad over the littlest things, because if our anger caught and held on the big things, we’d shape the world.”
― The Archive of the Forgotten
― The Archive of the Forgotten
“I can’t go with you,’ he told her. ‘Whatever you have to face down there, you must face it alone.’
‘I understand.’
And she did. It didn’t mean she wasn’t scared, but she was stronger now, altered forever by this journey. The Ceres who had first arrived would not have been capable of walking through that doorway - or more correctly, would not have believed herself capable of it, which was not the same thing. That Ceres was lost, and melancholic, but had forgotten for a while that this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar - only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― The Land of Lost Things
‘I understand.’
And she did. It didn’t mean she wasn’t scared, but she was stronger now, altered forever by this journey. The Ceres who had first arrived would not have been capable of walking through that doorway - or more correctly, would not have believed herself capable of it, which was not the same thing. That Ceres was lost, and melancholic, but had forgotten for a while that this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar - only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― The Land of Lost Things
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