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#1. When it comes to books ... They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

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#2. Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car.

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#3. And on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart.

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#4. You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

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#5. Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.

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#6. People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

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#7. Hands you his business card and requests that you tell your

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#8. There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

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#9. At the Konya bus station,

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#10. That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months.

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