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"All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps
of one world seeping through the cracks of another.
Do you know the feeling when you start reading
a new book
before the membrane of the last one
has had time to close behind you?
You leave the previous book with ideas and themes
— characters even — caught in the fibers of your clothes,
and when you open the new book,
they are still with you."
~ Diane Setterfield
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