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“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”
― The Tale of Despereaux
― The Tale of Despereaux

“That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“For don't we all long for the comfort of absolutes?”
― The Wife Tree
― The Wife Tree
“It comes to me that fear of death is, love of the world. The desire not to be excluded from the world. That perhaps at the heart of all my assumptions is the assumption that after death I will stop being a part of things.”
― When I Was Young & In My Prime
― When I Was Young & In My Prime
“after Mother died I could look at a photograph of her till kingdom come, but it never game me back what it was to sit across the kitchen table from her flesh and bones, never gave me back the feeling, you know. The inside of the feeling.”
― When I Was Young & In My Prime
― When I Was Young & In My Prime
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