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Sometimes a book finds you at just the right time

“Now the "Goddess of Fantasy" has already spun her golden warp and begun to fashion before his eyes patterns of a fantastic, marvellous life - and who knows, perhaps with her whimsical hand she has transported him to the seventh crystal heaven from the excellent granite sidewalk on which he was walking home.”

“my heart was zinging and slamming itself around like a bee under a glass”

“spidery distortions”

“goofy clarity of gaze”

Rainwhipped. Plinked. Daffy. Pharms.

“Like the odd, graceful preliminary to a dance step”

“Miasma of shame”

“Rapidly shrinking insides”

“Film-flam”

“by leaps and fathoms”

“a fresh shudder of nausea”

“ruddy, unfamiliar free flow of mind”

“Superstitious faultlines”

“pore and luster”

“lost in the throng”

“starry with unfamiliarity”

"Wasn't it glorious? Those red and orange sunsets? Fire and embers? Atomic, almost? Pure flame just ripping and pouring out of the sky?” ✨🌅

“Flares that beat and whirled and flashed in a quicksilver confusion”

“As he drifted cruelly — by degrees and latitudes — into stillness”

“For an instantly we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit”

“In a heart-skip of confusion”

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All seems smooth and easy — where is the obstacle?'
'Here! and here!' replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and the other on her breast. 'In whichever place the soul lives - in my soul, and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!'