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“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

“Felt the soul-anchoring joy of being understood”

"As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day."

"The map had been the first firm of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?"

"'How about peaches, dear?' murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight."

"The beauty of the pigeon's luminescent neck."