“Impossible things are really rough to do, you know.”
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”
— Vikram Seth, book An Equal Music
Source: An Equal Music
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