Top 45 Erika Swyler Quotes
#1. Nobody loves you quite like someone who's sorry.
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#3. Amos did not listen; he was desperately tired of listening; he wished to speak.
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#4. A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we're so lucky - and I was - the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.
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#5. She takes a breath and holds it. In middle school the girls used to have contests to see who could hold their breath the longest; Alice once held it until she fainted.
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#6. How strange it was that cleave had two such disparate meanings; she'd known to cut and tear, but now she knew to cling. She rested her cheek in the valley between his shoulder and chest. Amos
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#7. A trigger point for a curse may be hard to find, but if it's there, then there's a chance to break it. There is no stopping sadness. Sadness slips through the fingers. Frank
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#8. Headaches were like birds. Starlings. They could be perfectly calm, then a single acorn could drop and send the entire flock to the sky.
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#9. He sleeps as if making up for years of being awake.
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#10. They made an oddly joined puzzle, but the pieces fit in the right craggy places.
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#11. I was taught to watch for gentle souls, as they've not the wit to look after themselves.
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#12. Ever love something so much you start to think it's yours?
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#13. She'd learned that to cling too tightly was to strangle.
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#15. How good it was that people, like houses, had frames and that those frames could be so beautiful.
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#17. Half the charm in old books is the marks of living they acquire;
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#18. There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card.
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#19. We carry our families like anchors, rooting us in storms, making sure we never drift from where and who we are. We carry our families within us the way we carry our breath underwater, keeping us afloat, keeping us alive.
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#20. Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance.
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#21. it was rare enough to be cared for that it should not be taken lightly. He
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#22. noon. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible. I've earned a rest; I've worked without breaks since
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#24. She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be?
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#25. I need to get into the water, to clear my head.
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#26. I'd not taken you for a fool. Silent yes, but a fool, no.
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#27. When Amos sat up, Peabody pounded him on the back until he coughed out water. "I have fed you, clothed you, given you all I ever possessed. And you would walk away from me." A
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#28. Having all the time in the world makes getting things done impossible.
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#29. His words are heavy with rare things: care and possibility.
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#30. Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker,
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#31. Because there are things you do for people you've known your whole life. You let them save you, you put them in your books, and you let each other begin again, clean.
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#33. It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.
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#34. People spend their entire lives moving back and forth over the same water, moving but staying.
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#35. She'd wanted that, a grandfather. Someone who would stay. Michel had an eyetooth that turned sideways and she loved it more than anything else in the world. But someone wasn't yours because you loved a tooth.
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#37. If it's possible to have a reading hangover, I have one.
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#39. Even in a sea of names, a drowning mermaid has a way of standing out.
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#40. Perhaps the book opened a door; books have a way of causing ripples.
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#41. The book is a beautifully broken window with an obstructed view of what is killing us, and something is definitely killing us.
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#42. Once you've held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.
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#43. He began to pick the trumps he desired, their words - happiness set beside her ear, home by her feet. He surrounded her with hope, each card a wish.
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#44. I think sometimes it is difficult to look after ourselves,' he said, thoughtfully. 'We look to friends to do it for us.
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#45. She is half a soul, hungry or another...
The girl, she may not know, but she will drink your soul. She cannot help it. Half a soul will kill to be whole.
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