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Dina Salústio
9 quotes
“It is a story, then, like many others, of an unknown time and place, of everywhere and of always, a story in which women and men are crushed by too much beauty or, more commonly, too much cruelty. (Chapter 1)”
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“Thus he shared his story and his long-lost dream with her, while blocking out all thoughts unconnected to his daily routine. What he failed to appreciate was that by refusing to entertain these thoughts, he wasn't just denying himself a chance at a new life, but depriving himself and his daughter of the very things that made existence on earth divine. (Chapter 4)”
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“...the sole survivor of the plane crash, a girl who seemed stuck between two worlds, one in which questions need not be answered and another in which other people were just part of the scenery. (Chapter 7)”
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“He was doubtless being naïve, but poets have to believe in their dreams. (Chapter 6)”
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“she cherished their conversations like prized possessions and never told anyone else what her friend had said. She kept several drawings of the madgirl's eyes in a drawer and was impressed with how different they looked to all the other eyes she'd drawn. They were eyes with a face and a name and knowledge of some distant future; eyes with history, perhaps the entire history of Serrano. (Chapter 14)”
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“She marvelled at the power of dreams, the way they were only really there if you gave them shape. (Chapter 16)”
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“Some feelings were eternal while others had a fixed lifespan, enough time to be experienced then cast aside. (Chapter 19)”
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“She spent night after night, year after year, watching her belly rise and fall in tandem with her thoughts.”
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“This is the story of Serrano, a village of one hundred and ninety-three souls, including a young madwoman, several infants and three babies on the way, two of them twin girls, according to the midwife, who was peering through a crack in her warped shutters when she saw a woman's shadow cross the square at the same moment the sun crossed the moon, sending deep vibrations through the valley and playing havoc with time. The relentless wind took advantage of the situation to remove the young woman's dress, plucking it from her like a petal from a flower, and before the girl knew it the ground had gone from under her feet, the sky had disappeared over her head, her arms were dancing through the air, her legs were wading through the clouds and she was laid on the pungent earth, her hair fanned out in the fresh dew. (beginning of Chapter One)”
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