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"Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?"
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."

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"I trace his face with my fingers, 'Let me see. A guy tells me that he would have thrown himself in front of a train if it wasn't for me and then drives seven hours straight, without whingeing once, on a wild-goose chase in search of my mother with absolutely no clue where to start. He is, in all probability, going to get court-martialled because of me, has put up with my moodiness all day long, and knows exactly what to order me for breakfast. It doesn't get any more romantic than that, Jonah."

"There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few."

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