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She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. ...more

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Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

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Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

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Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

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There is truth in stories. There is truth in one of your paintings, boy, or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not f...more

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I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.