"Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops."

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"It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts."

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"The known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

Mystery, Childhood, Imagination, Fear

"He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?"

John Green, American Author

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"It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts."

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"The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy."

"We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself."

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"Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house."

"He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?"

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