“if she had to summon a smile to put out a fire, half the town would burn.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I won’t be your dog, but if you’re half the wolf I think you are, you’ve found a fox to run with.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
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