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“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Reading is the act of listening and speaking at the same time, with someone you’ve never met, but love. Even if you hate them, it’s a loving thing to do. You speak someone else’s words to yourself, and hear them for the first time.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.”
― Fidelity: Five Stories
― Fidelity: Five Stories
“But like you, I was made carefully, by a God who loved what He saw.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
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