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1 " It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere. "
― Anne Nesbet , Cloud and Wallfish
2 " But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe five different countries so far. I am homelandless. I even make mistakes when I speak Bulgarian. But it's not big deal, not really. It's not the end of the world, right? It's okay. "
― Anne Nesbet , The Cabinet of Earths (Maya and Valko, #1)
3 " I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me. "
4 " Truth and fiction are tangled together in everything human beings do and in every story they tell. Whenever a book claims to be telling the truth, it is wise (as Noah’s mother says at one point) to keep asking questions. "
5 " First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are,” said his father. “That’s basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it. "
6 " A tangle, you know, is more powerful than a single thread alone. "
7 " Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce. "
8 " Nothing but magic is really like magic, when it comes right down to it. "
9 " Cloud and Wallfish, Wallfish and Cloud. "
10 " Names are like codes, yes? Like magic codes. They have everything that ever happened to you squeezed tightly inside them. "
11 " Noah had never had to wait in line to go into a grocery store, "
