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"Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are."
"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."
"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."
"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
"Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?"
"That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot."
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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
"My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I would still remember to renew my passport. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle."
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience."
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