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81 " Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space. "
― Erin Morgenstern , The Starless Sea
82 " This person is a place Zachary could lose himself in, and never wish to be found. "
83 " These things happened. Sometimes it might sound weird but sometimes life is like that. Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you. "
84 " Climbing is not for girls.” “Anything is for girls. "
85 " Real places are never captured in words. There is always more. "
86 " I do not care for stars. Stars are made of spite and regret. "
87 " (All cats are guardians in their own right.) "
88 " If an egg breaks it becomes more than it was," Mirabelle says, after considering the matter. "And what is an egg, if not something waiting to be broken?""I think the egg was a metaphor.""Can't make an omelet without breaking a few metaphors," Mirabelle says. "
89 " I am so very tired of the romance of the dead girl. Aren't you? "
90 " Be brave,” she says. “Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. Any soul worth their star-stuff will take the whole package as is and however it grows. Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel. On that Tuesday in September when you think you have no one to talk to you call me, okay? I’ll be waiting by the phone. And drive the speed limit around Buffalo. "
91 " What’s the difference between a door and a cage? Between not yet and too late? "
92 " As soon as there's an unquestionable truth there's no longer a myth. "
93 " I was born down here.""Really?""No, not really. I hatched from a golden egg that a Norwegian forest cat sat on for eighteen moons. That cat still hates me." She pauses for a second before adding, "Yes, really. "
94 " Perhaps the book will act like some sort of beacon and draw whatever or whoever it is he’s looking for to him. He believes in books, he thinks as he leaves the room. That much he knows for sure. "
95 " It’s too normal. It’s disconcerting and making him dizzy and maybe once you go to wonderland you’re supposed to stay there because nothing will ever be the same in the real world, in the other world, afterward. "
96 " (The wind does not like to be confused. confusion ruins its sense of direction and direction is everything to the wind.) "
97 " Fate still owes me a dance. "
98 " I felt like we were right at that place where you go from being regular friends to help-you-move-dead-bodies friends but we weren’t quite there yet, like we needed to do one more side quest together and earn a few more mutual approval points and then it would be something a little more comfortable, but we hadn’t figured out our friendship dynamic entirely. "
99 " It is not the way of cats to interfere with fate. "
100 " There are stories that are more fragile still: For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs. There are stories wrapped in silk so their pages do not fall to dust and stories that have already succumbed, fragments collected and kept in urns. "