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“He already understand that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often…

— Paul Auster

“On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.”

— Milan Kundera

“It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.”

— Dia Reeves

“It never failed to astonish him, then or ever, how much of the world around him was mysterious and hidden from view.”

— Lev Grossman

“He understood the impact of his question, his words falling like stones into a shadowy lake—on the surface things return to normal, but in…

— Shades of Gray

“After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.”

— Jodi Picoult

“For him, the world was now a picture knocked crooked. He could barely judge the ground beneath his boots and the stars in the…

— Andy Davidson

“It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window --…

— Neal Stephenson

“Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could…

— Sarah Dessen

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau