The Immortalists
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all those upturned faces, waiting to see what she had up her sleeve. Of course, some of the faces were not upturned but sleeping, and secretly, those were the ones she liked best. She was determined to wake them up. - Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluUnexceptional but steady and solid was not the worst thing one could be, she thought, and she went to the pantry to retrieve her own jar, which she had waited for his reply to open.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalushe hoped – God, she hoped – that it was not too late for life to surprise her. She hoped it was not too late for her to surprise herself.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluWhat if I change? she asked the fortune teller, all those years ago, sure that knowledge could save her from bad luck and tragedy. Most people don’t, the woman said.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluShe’d tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to stop worrying.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluThoughts have wings.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluOur language is our strength, he’d written.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluthe power of words. They weaseled under door cracks and through keyholes. They hooked into individuals and wormed through generations.
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang laluShe knew that stories did have the power to change things: the past and the future
- Habitante de libromembuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalucan choose to live. Or we can choose to survive.’
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