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“Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.”

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Born on July 14, 1966, Brian Selznick is a renowned illustrator. His works are known for their unique style and emotional expression, which have won him great popularity among readers. more

“How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.”

“And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.”

Ifs Stories Spirit Waiting Return And Love Patience And Love

Book:In Sunlight and in Shadow

Source: In Sunlight and in Shadow

“When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.”

Knows Matter Dies Universe Energy All Things Proportion

Book:Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.”

Fiction Grace Pages Accidents Symbolic

Author:Mark Helprin

“The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.”

People Made Seems Careers Streets New York Glory Institutions Despite Episodes Files Clerks Forsaken

Author:Mark Helprin

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