Quotes From "Before The Dawn" By Dean Hughes

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What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he–or better yet, *she*–watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look."- Leah said–to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138) Dean Hughes
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I'd rather do something than read about it."" That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*."-pg 138-9 Dean Hughes