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Justin Cronin

The City of Mirrors

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  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    That is what two people must give to each other, he thinks: the history of themselves. How else can we hope to be known?
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    History is that scar on your hand. It’s the stories that leave a mark, the past that refuses to stay past.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    History is a story—the story of ourselves.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

    —WILLIAM FAULKNER, REQUIEM FOR A NUN
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    Every song is a love song, she thought. Every song is for you.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,

    May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

    —SHAKESPEARE, ROMEO AND JULIET
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    Destiny was too small a word; there was a force at work that ran far deeper, a thread woven into the fabric of all things.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    He placed his son along his arm as Jenny had done and began to rub. The lightness of his body was stupendous; how astounding that a person could grow from this small thing, that not just people but every living creature upon the earth had begun this way. Caleb felt swept into a miracle. Something soft and wet filled his palm; the baby’s chest expanded with a gulp of air.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

    —DANTE ALIGHIERI, INFERNO
  • Habitante de librohas quoted2 years ago
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

    —SARAH WILLIAMS, “THE OLD ASTRONOMER TO HIS PUPIL”
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