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But if I've learned one thing in my short, sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

"You could go anywhere," she said to the night air. But she wouldn't. She never did.

"It's precious," Alex said. "The dream of a world beyond ours, of magic made real. A way through the wardrobe, and maybe, back again."

"Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."

"Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house."

"There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment before a word is spoken."

"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."

"I don't want to wake up when I'm seventy-four, only to realize I haven't lived."

"It feels like wearing shoes that are too small. With every step, you notice it. It feels like blisters on your heels. It feels like a lump of ice in your chest that never melts, and you can only sleep a few hours at a time, because you’re always wondering where they are and those worries seep into your dreams."

"Joshua, please. Have I offered anyone Kool-Aid?"
"No, that would have flavor."

"She was sick a lot. She had an allergy to current events."

now this is the world building ive been needing so badly. dear god i love this so much!

"What will happen to a joke when no one can hear it anymore? How lonely those words will be when their power is gone. Where will they go? Off to join those stories that can never be told again."

"Yes, I have learned the names of all the bushes; but I have yet to learn their songs."

"What else can you offer the Earth, which has everything? What else can you give, but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony — a ceremony that makes a home."

"The land knows you, even when you are lost."

"There are some things, he concluded, that can only be expressed through a woman's form."

"Make me into a harp, and call it by my name."

"I want to meet you in every place I ever loved."

"See? I pour you into things. [...] I like writing you. I like reading you."

"The branches of a nearby willow tree were laden with lush foliage and drooping heavily, almost to the ground, though they were still, as if lost in deep thought."

nah everyone can quit now.

i really don't need twenty chapters exaggerating the same topic over and over with no additional plot. please hunty let's move it along.

"But Fernand was mistaken; a man of his disposition never kills himself, for he constantly hopes."