You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.
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Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.
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We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
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Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend.
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That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
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You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.
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The scariest moment is always just before you start.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
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Books are a uniquely portable magic.
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Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
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No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.
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The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.
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