Summer of Night, while on the surface a horror novel, is actually a celebration of the secrets and silences of childhood. But it’s also a tale of a separate world of childhood that we’ve lost or may be on the verge of losing.
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“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space. I remember wondering if this story was an analogy about people who stay in places or relationships or whatever situations longer than they should because they’re afraid of letting go or moving on or the unknown, or how people hold on to things because they miss what the thing was even if that isn’t what that same thing is now.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.”
― 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
“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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