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“I can’t,” she says, looking up. “I can’t hold a pen. I can’t tell a story. I can’t wield a weapon, or make someone remember. But art,” she says with a quieter smile, “art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They’re like weeds, always finding their way up.”
- Addie LaRue

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Never ask for eternity for, Time with constraint is a Life and without it is a Curse.
- Anonymous

“It will take Addie years to learn the language of those eyes. To know that amusement renders them the shade of summer ivy, while annoyance lightens them to sour apple, and pleasure, pleasure darkens them to the almost-black of the woods at night, only the edges still discernible as green.”

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab