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"The author seemed like he knew a ton about humans from the way the narrator goes about how events develop between the characters and their world around them." — Nov 13, 2024 10:59PM
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“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster
― Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus:
One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen � the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, � I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, 'Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.'
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.
And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, 'He is a madman.' I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, 'Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.'
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.”
―
One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen � the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives, � I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, 'Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.'
Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.
And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, 'He is a madman.' I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, 'Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.'
Thus I became a madman.
And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.”
―

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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