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- A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
- The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
- I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cérébrale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a Cérébrale…
- When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and…
- It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing…
- Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.
- Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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