Thin Paper

About books. About stories. About sayings, and folk lores and songs and poetry.

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"In its absence, home was in the rhythm of the halakhah: the daily prayer, the weekly Sabbath, the annual holy days. In time was their culture. In time, not in space, was their home."

-The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin

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"She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory—to know that she connects a future unknowable to her parents with a past unknowable to her child." -The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin

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... Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes... - John Dee (Sandman)

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People think dreams aren't real because they aren't made of matter, of particles...

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"It has been ten thousand years Nada... yes I still love you. But I have not yet forgiven you." -Morpheus

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Exhaustion BITES at my soul. I have answers of a SORT. -Dream

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"You had no thought for the harm you must have brought to your world... Lord, what fools these mortals be." -Dream

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"You threatened, cajoled and pleaded for gifts that are neither mankind's to receive nor mine to give" - Dream. Sandman

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Let me tell you something, sir -- just because you've played a game of chess with somebody, it doesn't mean you know everything about them

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And if spirit has fallen away from me
why does a skeleton follow me?

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Why didn't both of us die
when my infancy died?

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Why did we spend so much time
growing up, only to grow apart?

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Doe he know I never loved him
or he, me?

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Where is the child that I was ---
inside of me still --- or gone?

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Pablo Neruda. Question Book. XLIV

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"...but there are fates that even the most powerful have to submit to." -the angel Xaphania, The Amber Spyglass. Philip Pullman

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A tavern is not a destination, Brant Tucker. Merely a place to rest upon the way. -Sandman. Neil Gaiman.

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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they never existed. -Philip Pullman

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You have to live in the world with all its deceptions and dangers. -Tales of the Otori

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The fate from our past lives influences our present life, just as this life will will influence our future. -Tales of the Otori