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“Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“For a while I was looking for a person but I didn't find them and after that I was looking for myself. Now that I've found me I'm back to exploring, which is what I was doing in the first place before I was doing anything else and I think I was supposed to be exploring all along.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“It was like a voyage, only the other way round. So that instead of the waiting and hoping to sight land, you were moving over land in the first place, all impatient, all ready for that first glimpse. The seaside. The sea.”
― Last Orders
― Last Orders
“The dead have no compassion for the living.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
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