“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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