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“You have to pass away from what failed you into what can sustain you. Otherwise- there is no hope”

"I've been a rebel always," I said. "You've been the slave of everything that ever claimed you."

"And I am not a being who requires a respectful acknowledgment in your thoughts or in words.. So I am a creature very different from you, and so you cannot understand me. Why can't I go with you? I will do whatever you wish if you take me with you. I will be under your spell."

ARMAND 😔

"This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see light as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus an endless illumination by which to understand all things."

“It was shattering something to speak. I was feeling more fear of him at this moment than ever during the earlier battles and arguments, and l hate those who make me feel fear, those who know things that I need to know, who have that power over me.”

Fredrick Backman can make you experience anticipatory grief like no other

“They had carried on like that all day. You can have worse days when you’re fourteen, far worse. The artist had lain on his back with the sea in his nostrils and his friends’ voices in his ears, and it was that feeling that he would paint the sky with, eventually. Heaven is a summer.”

The best narration ever??

“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”

“Art is so big, so unfathomable, that it teaches us to mourn for strangers.”