

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“The last light with any real warmth had been at home, long ago, in a place and a time that no longer existed, with people whose names he didn’t say even inside his own mind.”
― After Alice
― After Alice

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess

“Noon bells sang out with their usual ignorance of mood, marking out moments of grief and worry, elation and confusion. The bells said that at its core, human life was fundamentally a sort of organic clockwork, while the winds and skylarks that swept against the sound of metronomic iron timekeeping argued for variety, subtlety, epiphany.”
― After Alice
― After Alice

“When they argue they’re like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don’t see the landscape. You see the rabbit.”
― The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
― The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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