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101 " The Public Library is a shrine of dreams, and people fall in love here all the time. Maybe you don't believe this, but it's true. Books are works of love after all. "
― Ruth Ozeki , The Book of Form and Emptiness
102 " Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages. "
103 " She says I am a fool to take foolish risks. But vat choice do I hef? I am a poet. Poets must take risks. And I am a fool, so my risks must be foolish. I see no way around this, do you agree? "
104 " it took me a while to learn how to tune my ears so I could hear the Unmade things over all the noise that the Made things were making. "
105 " Obviously there are things a kid doesn’t need to know about his parents, but you could tell some of them. "
106 " A book must start somewhere.Listen… "
107 " I thought progress was a good thing.” “Well, maybe not if it just keeps piling up more junk and keeps you from fixing stuff from the past. "
108 " while the hookers and junkies spun like windblown litter in their wake. "
109 " But sometimes we’d spin the moon, and you had to close your eyes and put your finger down to make the spinning stop, and wherever your finger landed, that was your spot, and you had to make up a story about it. It was a good game, but then Mom landed in the Sea of Crisis three times in a row, and Dad kept landing in these tiny places like the Marsh of Diseases and the Lake of Death. He thought it was funny, but it freaked Mom out, so we stopped playing. "
110 " Osmium is the heaviest matter in the world, and now that I think about it, that’s what my dad needed. He needed superheavy shoes made with osmium soles to hold him down to earth. You know how he said that whole thing about how music was space, and he didn’t need to fly off to some other place because everything was so beautiful right here "