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“He believed in a true world. A world behind this one, that shines through it, like a candle through a lampshade.”

“You see the beauty inside everything. It doesn’t last long- it’s either gone in a minute, you just caught it, or else maybe it’s something so big that you normally can’t get your head around it. Like the fog in your head clears out. The world stops being a puppet show and you see the real thing. It’s probably like that all the time, but you just can’t see it, except for those little glimpses.”

“But then he forgot how. He stopped being able to see it.”

-Josie Tyrell