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„All she could say was that if the turn of each blue page was the turn of a wave, the volume of words remaining was oceanic.

But all bodies of water are finite.
What would she do,
once she reached the last page
of the last book?“

„She read and read, because she had woken these voices, and to stop reading would silence them. But even if she was to stop reading, they might keep speaking in her dreams, […] in traffic, in the swimming pool, in the library or the post office queue. The only way to let them rest would be to find a way towards an ending. If all she had to lead them there were casebooks, well then, she'd have to keep reading.“

„She seized her rage by the throat and drowned it in the docile grin she held up at him, she grinned and grinned, until finally, her grin shivered like glass, and fell.“