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“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.”
“I think perhaps this is how we survive in the world. Passing little bits of our magic back and forth to each other when the world takes it from us. It's survival. It's love. It's family.”
― The Witch Haven
― The Witch Haven
“When I was a kid, I used to have these panic attacks thinking about how I could never be anyone else. I couldn’t be my mom or my dad, and for my whole life, I’d have to walk around inside a body that kept me from ever truly knowing anyone else.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“They've known for years. Decades. It didn't make any difference. None at all. Because now it's here and despite all that knowing, he's lost. Everyone is. They had all hung their hats on the question of proximity. Yes, it will be bad, they'd said to one another, but we have years. We have time. Somehow we'll solve this along the way. He doesn't even have the energy to be angry.”
― The Light Pirate
― The Light Pirate
“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“The structures they built would bend and break, and they would make new ones. There would be nothing so precious that they couldn't begin again. And again.”
― The Light Pirate
― The Light Pirate
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