

“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated

“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated

“He went down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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