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“For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth....Such are the autumn people.”
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“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
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“What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
― The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
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