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“What does nostalgia mean to a child? An abstraction. A standing stone waiting for them in the mist. Walk a path across some decades, any path you like, and the word will gather weight. It will come to you trailing maybes and might-have-beens. Nostalgia is a drug, a knife. Against young skin it carries a dull edge, but time will teach you that nostalgia cuts - and that it's a blade that we cannot keep from applying to our own flesh.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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“As I get older I see more and more how fluid a thing time is. There are so many ways to slip in and out of it. The wonder is that we ever stick in the now.”
― Looking Glass Sound
― Looking Glass Sound
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“Yute walked past the old man, clapping him on the shoulder as he went, 'You don't think you had enough to read already, my friend?'
Synoth managed a wry smile through his beard. 'It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.'
It was Yute's turn to shake his head as he walked away. 'Even as a trainee, Synoth, even as a trainee. Always hungry for the next book before you finished the first page of the one before you.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
Synoth managed a wry smile through his beard. 'It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.'
It was Yute's turn to shake his head as he walked away. 'Even as a trainee, Synoth, even as a trainee. Always hungry for the next book before you finished the first page of the one before you.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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“All of us steal our lives. A little here, a little there. Some of it given, most of it taken. We wear ourselves like a coat of many patches, fraying at the edges, in constant repair. While we shore up one belief, we let go another. We are the stories we tell to ourselves. Nothing more.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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“Would it really take a vengeful god to bring them all to ruin, or was it simply a case of handing sharp knives to toddlers and waiting for the bleeding to start?”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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