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There's as much chance of me leaving this kitchen," Stella says, "as you putting down a book.
— Menna Van Praag
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.
— Menna Van Praag
And, like most people, you're too scared, stubborn or stupid to give yourself what you need until you're shaken awake by something.
— Menna Van Praag
She is no longer a woman of moderation. She is illuminated. She is fire and ice. She is passion, excitement and joy.
— Menna Van Praag
It's a great shame, she thinks, that the heart cannot feel joy without also feeling pain, that it cannot know love without also knowing loss.
— Menna Van Praag
Sometimes acts of faith are called for in life.
— Menna Van Praag
Noa Sparrow has never been much liked by people and she doesn't much care. That isn't strictly true, of course.
— Menna Van Praag
You know, some people don't see the things right under their noses. They mistake the everyday for what's ordinary and unimportant.
— Menna Van Praag
When you follow your heart you allow miraculous possibilities to unfold.
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I long fora little life,
an everyday life,
a splash of sunlight
through a window
a smile from a stranger -
a heart to hold in mine. — Menna Van Praag
Solving mysteries is as much about having an open mind as keeping your eyes open. Isn't it the same in science?
— Menna Van Praag
Now you're discovering the great secret of great writing: one line of true feeling is worth a thousand pages of clever thinking.
— Menna Van Praag
It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.
— Menna Van Praag
She still hasn't cried because to stay in shock feels safer, it keeps a distance between her and the thing she's trying to pretend hasn't happened.
— Menna Van Praag
If you wait until you're ready, you'll be dead," Stella says. "And, as a life strategy, I don't really recommend it.
— Menna Van Praag
You're one of life's magicians. You simply haven't realized it yet.
— Menna Van Praag
False love is just wanting someone else, but true love is wanting someone else to be happy.
— Menna Van Praag
The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.
— Menna Van Praag
I can't trust anyone who won't take real cream, or real sugar.
— Menna Van Praag
A vast skylight is cut into the ceiling, so she can fall asleep studying the stars. She doesn't know their real names, preferring mysteries to facts,
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Too much analysis kills a thing. Art is created from passion and inspires passion. And passion is beyond reason. Don't you think?
— Menna Van Praag
I know that a heart can hold on for a lifetime, hoping for the impossible, loving, wanting what it will never have.
— Menna Van Praag
But do you really want to spend your life like this, as if you're locked in a library?" "Of course." Alba grins. "I can't think of anything better.
— Menna Van Praag
Do you know where he went?
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Do you ever want to run away?" "Sometimes." Milly laughed. "But I also know that not everything I want every moment will actually make me happy.
— Menna Van Praag
I used to wonder why it would hold on," Sebastian says at last, "why it would cause such suffering.
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Great love only comes once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.
— Menna Van Praag