Jennifer DonnellyI listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. In this quote, the speaker is discussing writing a book, which is a long process of writing down what you have been thinking about. The speaker also talks about how he heard the words from the beginning to the end.
Source: A Northern Light
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