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121 " She found she no longer minded that the stories would linger. That some enjoyed them and others did not but that is the nature of a story. Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another. "
― Erin Morgenstern , The Starless Sea
122 " Be brave,” she says. “Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. "
123 " Sorry it's so poetry today. "
124 " Devotion is for acolytes. Worthiness for guardians. Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft. "
125 " Caffeine is an important weapon in my arsenal, "
126 " Endings are what give stories meaning. "
127 " Books are always better when read than explained. "
128 " He wishes he had brought the wine-colored book with him, but he is trying to make a point of not having his nose constantly in a book. It is an attempt to appear friendlier that he's not certain is working yet. "
129 " This is not the first time they have stood together on these shores. It will not be the last. This is a story they will live over and over again, together and apart. The cage that contains them both is a large one that does not have a key. Not yet. "
130 " a cream-colored sweater that looks as though it spent as little time as possible in the transition from sheep to clothing "
131 " It doesn’t whisper verses or stories around his tongue and into his head, thankfully, but it tastes older than stories. It tastes like myth. "
132 " You're not wearing shoes.""I hate shoes.""Hate is a strong emotion for footwear," Zachary observes. "
133 " She wears her worry like a coat she never takes off. "
134 " Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel. "
135 " And so Time goes on as it should and events that were once fated to happen are left instead to chance, and Chance never falls in love with anything for long. "
136 " He tells her about moving from place to place to place and never feeling like he ever belonged in any of them, how wherever he was he would almost always rather be someplace else, preferably somewhere fictional. He tells her how he worries that none of it means anything. "
137 " know thyself and learn to suffer "
138 " The stories of a place are not easily contained. "
139 " You want to be in the story, not observing it from the outside. You want to be under its shell. The only way to do that is to break it. But if it breaks, it is gone. "
140 " This is where we leave them, in a long-awaited kiss upon the Starless Sea, tangled in salvation and desire and obsolete cartography. "