"In the same way, a village on the side of a hill, seen from a train, may look like the perfect place to spend the rest of the your days, yet if you were to get out of the train and go into the village you would find that the magic had escaped from it to settle on the tail of the departing train which had so bored you as you sat in it and yearned towards the village." - from The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens

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"An afternoon stroll is never quite so luxurious as when you're totally unnecessary to your surroundings." -- from 'Three Streets' by Yoko Tawada (tr. Margaret Mitsutani)

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"It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent." -- from Marilynne Robinson's When I Was a Child I Read Books

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"The scent of the library greeted him like a warm and welcoming bed: the acetate aroma of the inks, the acrid wilderness smell of the parchment, the perfume of dust and resin that impregnated the wooden shelves..How he loved this place!" -- from The Eye Stone by Roberto Tiraboschi (tr. Katherine Gregor)

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"I get the distinct feeling I'm living in what will someday be a fond memory.". ~~Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle

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"He had the breadth of an epic writer and the bleakness of a comedian." - from Käsebier Takes Berlin by Gabriele Tergit, tr. Sophie Duvernoy

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„Everything I love has always had a tendency to be taken from me.“

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"In truth, you didn't need classical literature to learn vices: according to a dialogue on hypocrisy by Poggio, one preacher often provided so much detail in his sermons against lust that the congregation rushed home afterward to try out the practices for themselves." -- from Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell

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"Cheng Xin's mind was as transparent and empty as space: there was no memory, no sensation. The surface of her consciousness was smooth as a mirror, the setting sun of her life reflected in it, as naturally as any dusk...." ~~Death's End, Cixin Liu

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"As everyone who lives in New York City knows, each building must have at least one working opera singer. Each residential building, at any rate. It’s a fact—part of the fabric of the city." -- from The Doorman's Repose written and illustrated by Chris Raschka

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"One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by." - from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

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"Soulmates, the book and its reader. An amorous coupling that lasts just moments, but at maximum intensity!" - from 'The Censor's Notebook' by Liliana Corobca, translated by Monica Cure

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"If you can't fix a problem, you can seek catharsis by making the whole damned thing worse and worse. Flip the checker board, kick the sand castle, et cetera." ~~The Wind Began to Howl, Laird Barron

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Book Quote Wednesday word of the week is "owe"

From Crowning Courtship (found family for the win!)

“He was the one who pulled us all together, you know,” Madi continued softly. “We were a little lost that first year and didn’t know how to make friends. Terin singled us out, the trainees who were too young or too loud or too scared to fit with the rest. He collected us up like a flock of lambs and made us a family. I owe him everything.”

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"When you took off your public face and turned it inside out for private use, it could end up a very different shape.". ~~City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky

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"She was an illustrator, a playwright, and an actress at only eight and a half years old, but nobody in my house noticed; it was one of the ways she spent her time, just like any other." - from Lesser Islands by Lorenza Pieri

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(Art credit: Henri le Fauconnier)

From Lucinda Williams's autobiography.
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"On the wall she would hang an Indian sari shot through with gold thread and sewn with tiny glass bits that reflected the light like spangles. On the floor she’d lay a woven ikat carpet from Indonesia. The bed she would cover with a wondrous cloth brought back from some remote, mystical region of Bhutan and scatter on it Ming-style embroidered cushions." - from Inheritance from Mother by Minae Mizumura

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"During his prime he had done much to add dignity and decorum to the public spaces of London, and it was through his untiring endeavours that the hands which pointed to the public conveniences in Hyde Park had a short length of sleeve and white cuffs painted onto their naked wrists. Aunt Rose had grown stout in recent years, but she possessed the finest collection in England of old coloured prints of stagecoaches that had overturned in snowdrifts." - from The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff

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