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You don't get over a loss like that; you learn to live with it.
The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
The best stories are those that haunt you.
"Sometimes the hardest journey is the one you take alone."
"You can't change the past, but you can change the meaning of the past."
"A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while."
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."
"The best novels are the ones that change you when you're not looking."
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
"Every place has its secrets, if you know how to look."
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. It’s not a film you can replay. It’s more like a story you tell yourself, and the story changes every time."
"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."
"Grief is a sort of madness, I think. It makes you do strange things."