The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova
"So, what made you come here?"
"Confronting past lives," I said, "Just kidding, I'm here to take the landscape workshop."
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"The heart does not go backward. Only in the mind."
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"It does not matter. Many things are never explained, you know. It is not really a bad thing."
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"If they know something, there is no need for them to know more. it is better for them not to know. And if they know nothing, that is best of all."
"Confronting past lives," I said, "Just kidding, I'm here to take the landscape workshop."
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"The heart does not go backward. Only in the mind."
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"It does not matter. Many things are never explained, you know. It is not really a bad thing."
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"If they know something, there is no need for them to know more. it is better for them not to know. And if they know nothing, that is best of all."