"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!"

    "If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it."

"If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?"

"I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was."

"Everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated."

"...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only Before and After..."

"《Someone's got to be the hero》 he replied, and walked off across the hull.
《Famous last words》 I muttered."

"If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn’t have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe."

"What am I supposed to fight then with, the goddamned butter knife?"

"Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead?"

"I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I'd never recover."

"It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren - and my own fantastic stories to share."

"In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they’d been seeking. It’s believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement—feeding on stray animals, living in isolation—and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation. If a hollow gorges itself on enough peculiars, it becomes a wight."

"I’d always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar."

"Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind?"

"She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous."

"What you are is three-quarters stupid"

"The peculiarity for which they’d been hunted was simply their Jewishness. They were orphans of war, washed up on that little island in a tide of blood."

"I felt empty, too, and strangely heavy, like the planet was spinning too fast, heating up gravity, pulling me toward the floor."

"They were the gods of this strange little heaven, and I was their guest."

"Suddenly I was cocooned in silent,blissful darkness,with only the whisper of distant waves to remind me where I was."

"...I always stopped to see how far I'd come, this time I kept walking. Sometimes it's better not to look back."

☆"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I simply have failed to notice how extraordinary it was."

☆"We cling to our fairytales until the price for believing in them becomes to high..."

☆"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen "

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