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“Repository,” he finally says, “you know this word? A resting place. A text—a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.” His eyes open very widely then, as though he peers into a great darkness. “But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“When pain knocks on your door, welcome it. Let it in. Sit with it. Have tea with it. Understand it. Then let it leave.”
― Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
― Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul
“Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. ‘There will be other rainbows.’ she said.
Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
― Emily's Quest
Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
― Emily's Quest
“He should have risked more. It has taken him his whole life to accept himself, and he is surprised to understand that now that he can, he does not long for one more year, one more month: eighty-six years has been enough. In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you’re this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent, and eventually it becomes time to take them out of the world.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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