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“We learned, after the old world died, not to put our faith in wood pulp or motherboards; the only archive that survives is the one we carry with us.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Knight and the Butcherbird

“Then everything becomes black against white: snow falls on the ploughed fields. ‘Drive your plow over the bones of the dead,’ I said to myself in the words of Blake; is that how it went?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“presumption is, after all, the mother from where all mistakes are born,”
― Stephanie Hudson, Afterlife