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Alive Quote by Jo Walton

“There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.” quote by Jo Walton — Download Open image

“There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.”

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“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it was because someone on an aeroplane had dropped a rose at just the right time…

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It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering…

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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