“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
— Donna Tartt, book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
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