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21 " People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren’t expecting to see them. "
― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)
22 " The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described. "
23 " Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened. "
24 " Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened. "
25 " Humanity is capable of any atrocity,” she said. “But when you understand the extent of this cruelty, the unprecedented viciousness, the immense scale of the horror, it seems beyond the power of mere people to conceive and execute. It seems demonic. "
26 " Endeavor to live the life. "
27 " The next one’s also from Thoreau. ‘If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "
28 " By the time Bibi reached her bedroom, she understood as never before that home wasn’t a place but rather a place in the heart. In this troubled world, everything was transient except what we could carry with us in our minds and hearts. Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened. "
29 " Everyone, Pax believed, was more than she or he appeared to be, and one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed. That Pogo had taken a full measure of himself must be one reason that Bibi so loved him. "
30 " This next one’s by someone named Anatole France. ‘To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.’ "
31 " ...a sorrowing sky, the days and nights washed by the grief of angels... "
32 " Astragalomancy was a method of divining the future or learning hidden knowledge by rolling dice. A ceromancer dropped melted wax into cold water and interpreted the figures thus produced. Halomancy required the reading of the shapes made by casting a handful of salt on a flat surface. A necromancer sought answers by communicating with the dead. "
33 " She told him that she wished he would come to life for her, the way that he had come to life in the wonderful story, and she really did wish it, want it, need it. She could so clearly see him rising from the page of the book as he had risen from the baker’s tray before setting out into the city. When the incident began, it was pure Disney. But not for long. "
34 " And if words existed before matter of any kind, before suns and worlds and seas and human beings and fortune-tellers…well, then an alphabet must have existed even earlier, so that words could be formed. Therefore letters are more fundamental and powerful than anything else a diviner could use to force the secrets of the universe into view. "
35 " In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable. "
36 " I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does. "
37 " To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth. "
38 " The vending machines hummed softly, as though mulling over some grave decision... "
39 " The writer that you are, I guess you’re used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do. "
40 " When she realized that the tears might be as persistent as the shakes, she ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book. Although "