"Learning to decipher words had only added to……" — John Crowley
"Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump."
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John Crowley
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20 Quotes by John Crowley
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Well, do you do that consciously?" Daily Alice asked, only partly of Cloud. "Do what?" Cloud said. "Grow up? No.…
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The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
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Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is…
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The universe is Time's body.
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It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different;…
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First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo…
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Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into…
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God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books…
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There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which…
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