“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“In my days of youth, I remembered my God,
And he hath not forgotten my age.”
The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.
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One more story, just one more,
And then my history's completed,
All my chronicles written down
And my sinner's debt repaid to God.
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as I light mine,
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