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« The sky grows dark
The black over blue
Yet the stars still dare
To shine for you »

le livre me donne vraiment envie d’avoir un enfant, ce qui me TERRIFIE.

« The girl was staring at her in a way no one had stared at her before. It was scary, the emotion. She had Nora's mouth. And that slightly lost look that people had sometimes attributed to her. She was beautiful and she was hers - or kind of hers - and she felt a swell of irrational love, a surge of it, and knew - if the library wasn't coming for her right now (and it wasn't) - that she had to get away. »

« Her mind felt different here. She thought a lot in this life, but her thoughts were gentle. »

« Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them. »

« I have been so many things. On every continent on Earth. And yet I have never found the life for me. I am resigned to being this way for ever. There will never be a life that I truly want to live for ever. I get too curious. I get too much of a yearning to live another way. And you don't need to make that face. It's not sad. I am happily in limbo? »

« She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn't been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature solitude took on a different character.[…] A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself. »

« life is frightening, and it is frightening for a reason, and the reason is that it doesn't matter which branch of a life we get to live, we are always the same rotten tree. »

« Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility.
Understand? »

« sometimes, the only way to learn is to live. »