“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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“I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
― The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
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