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again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in the dark. The boat was a needle, threading the glowing pearls of an enormous necklace. Did the
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“I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.
location 3234”
― The Word Exchange
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― The Word Exchange
“I said not long before that work and weakness are comforters. But sweat is the kindest creature of the three--far better than philosophy, as a cure for ill thoughts.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
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― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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