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“He turned to look at her and spoke in a low voice. 鈥楽o many questions Anthea. Perhaps it鈥檚 time I asked you a few questions.鈥 鈥榃hat do you mean.鈥 鈥榃ho were you thinking about? This morning?鈥 鈥榃hat? You mean when we 鈥︹ 鈥榊ou know what I mean. Who was in your mind?鈥 鈥業 don鈥檛 really think while, you know 鈥 鈥 聽鈥業 don鈥檛 believe you.”
― A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness
― A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

“But you love books, then,鈥 Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
鈥淥h, yes,鈥 Lestat said. 鈥淪ometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.鈥
鈥淲hat a strange thing to say at your age,鈥 she laughed.
鈥淣o, but one can feel desperate at any age, don鈥檛 you think? The young are eternally desperate,鈥 he said frankly. 鈥淎nd books, they offer one hope 鈥- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”
― Blackwood Farm
鈥淥h, yes,鈥 Lestat said. 鈥淪ometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive.鈥
鈥淲hat a strange thing to say at your age,鈥 she laughed.
鈥淣o, but one can feel desperate at any age, don鈥檛 you think? The young are eternally desperate,鈥 he said frankly. 鈥淎nd books, they offer one hope 鈥- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved.”
― Blackwood Farm

“A silent breeze swept away a moment, one that never can be recaptured, never can it be relived. So it is for us to cherish the聽聽moments, cherish them with all of our might. For just as an eagle in flight, they are transient, soon vanishing like the moon as day return the light.”
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
― Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

“People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!鈥
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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