"The Act Of Seeing Is No Small Thing. To See Something Is To Be Possessed By It. Sometimes It Carries
"The act of seeing is no small thing. To see something is to be possessed by it. Sometimes it carries off a part of you, sometimes it's your whole soul." - Motojirō Kajii, Landscapes of the Heart
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"...we knew we were lucky to live there. Or we thought we knew anyway; you can never know how lucky you are to have something until it's taken away." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
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— Mary Oliver, The Pond
"Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short." - Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
"Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
