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All Our Tomorrows
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2025
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Incompleteness
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Penumbra
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2015
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4 editions
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Methuselah
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The Widening Gyre
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West:
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"𝐈𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐰? 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝? 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐭? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢" Read more of this review » |
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"The foundation, at a careless look, could pass for bones, the door for a mouth, the chimney a finger crooked at the sky, or at a wife who would not be a savior." - what does that mean? "The plague doc" Read more of this review » |
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"“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
That’s the opening line of this famous classic, and I’d say it’s probably 1 of the most iconic opening lines in all of world literature. Potential Spoilers Ahead! The story is set in the late 18th " Read more of this review » |
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“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
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"The story’s alternating chapters mirror memory itself: fragmented, looping, and quietly devastating. As Tessa obsesses over the fate of an ancient tree in a dying world, her fixation becomes a poignant metaphor for endurance and fragility: of nature,"
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| I loved this collection so much that I blurbed it!! It's got everything you might want from a short story collection--blazing emotion, lingering memory, incredible tension, wonderful dialogue, and expertly crafted sentences. Some of the stories will ...more | |
“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“But we will awaken too early, not to growth but to decay:
A dying chrysalis emerging into an endless dark.”
― Incompleteness
A dying chrysalis emerging into an endless dark.”
― Incompleteness
“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
― All Our Tomorrows
― All Our Tomorrows
“We all live this way; things fall apart and their corpses rot in front of us as we adapt to a lesser way of living.”
― Deliver Me
― Deliver Me
“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
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