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“When we bound these books, I thought, they were identical. But I realised they couldn’t stay that way. As soon as someone cracks the spine, a book develops a character all its own. What impresses or concerns one reader is never the same as what impresses or concerns all others. So, each book, once read, will fall open at a different place. Each book, once read, I realised, will have told a slightly different story.”
― The Bookbinder of Jericho
― The Bookbinder of Jericho
“there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I’d accomplished something.”
― Killers of a Certain Age
― Killers of a Certain Age
“Because she doesn’t apologize for anything. She had a rotten start in life, but she’s made the best of it. She lives on her own terms. She knows who she is and what she wants, and she does what she is good at. And she has a good time doing it.”
― Killers of a Certain Age
― Killers of a Certain Age
“The floating water vases of Zenn-La are always empty.
The methanic sulfite that causes the water to levitate is poisonous to all known species of flowers.
The mystery is then not why they are empty, but why anyone would make such a vase.”
― The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man
The methanic sulfite that causes the water to levitate is poisonous to all known species of flowers.
The mystery is then not why they are empty, but why anyone would make such a vase.”
― The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man
“I clean, I help with the cooking, I set the fires. Everything I do gets eaten or dirtied or burned—at the end of a day there’s no proof I’ve been here at all.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
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