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“Žmonės visados pasakoja istorijas naktį iš Kūčių į Kalėdas, kad sudomintų tuos, kurių galvos apsvaigusios nuo medaus, ir palinksmintų tuos, kurių pilvai kaip reikiant įšilę. Bet jie nežino, kad sekdami tas pasakas pažadina senuosius kerus. Nes Kūčios - tai vienintėlė naktis metuose, kai gyvūnai geba kalbėti, amenys dainuoti, net jūra - šnabždėti. Jei tik išmoktume klausytis...”

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready. That life is the minutes you want minus one.”

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.” And there in the dark, he asks if it was really worth it. Were the instants of joy worth the stretches of sorrow? Were the moments of beauty worth the years of pain? And she turns her head, and looks at him, and says, “Always.”

“The aftermath breeds art,” he says. “But war makes believers out of cynics. Sycophants desperate for salvation, everyone suddenly clinging to their souls, clutching them close like a matron with her finest pearls.”

"There’s no context, just the illusion that you’re showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie."

"She will use a hundred names over the years, and countless times, she will hear those words, until she begins to wonder at the importance of a name at all."

"Perhaps an enemy’s company is still better than none."

“Being forgotten, she thinks, is a bit like going mad. You begin to wonder what is real, if you are real. After all, how can a thing be real if it cannot be remembered? It’s like that Zen koan, the one about the tree falling in the woods. If no one heard it, did it happen? If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist?”

“Déjà vu. Déjà su. Déjà vécu. Already seen. Already known. Already lived.”

"Books are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one."

"Moving water is healthy; stagnant water is sickly. Tainted."

"magic is just the truth that people believe."

“Šiame pasaulyje kartais per daug pasirinkimų. O kai visi turi per daug pasirinkimų, daug mažiau galimybių, kad tave pasirinks. O mes visi norime, kad mus pasirinktų.”