I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor …

C. S. Lewis
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I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1966). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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