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“I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”
“When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To ha...”
“The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.”
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I wo...”
“She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.”
“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt chea...”
“He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”
“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
“He was cross-examining my subconscious .”
“One of the peculiar children's perspective out of time allows him to take minute interest in every resident of the town and to chronicle everything we did for the entire day he lives over and over.”
“He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.”
“Forgive me. I continue to underestimate the breadth of your ignorance.”
