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“Books were safer than other people anyway.”

“(...) I was full of piss and vinegar in those days, not to mention too stupid to know better, in other words still in my twenties (...).”

“But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together. And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another. ”

“"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

“Was there only one world after all, which spent its time dreaming of others?”

“They are people who learn more from themselves than they can ever learn from others.”

“Hear me, Niah. Hear me, Mother. This flesh your feast. This blood your wine. This gift, this life, this end, our offering to you. Hold him close.”