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Fallen

Lia Mills

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Why must you always try to take a closer look at things that are perfectly evident?”

“The day had been a slowly closing door. The rest of the world moved on out into the stream of life, while I was left stranded and forgotten on the riverbank, at low tide.”

“My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.”

“If you love someone, and that person dies, all that love becomes a burden, a weight accumulating, pooling inside you, with nowhere to go.”

“The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?”

“So many people, so much industry - a reproach to my aimless, time-wasting existence.”

“If the city were to drink itself insensible, this is how it might dream, like a sleeping dog, twitching and moaning.”

“I wanted to burn, to hurt, to shatter into a million tiny pieces riding violent winds of flame and ruin.”

“How can you move faster into less?”

“Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise.”

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Book Keywords:

absence, grief, libraries, loss

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