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"Haunting, subtle until it's not, things are beginning to unravel now while also tightening their grip on our leads. The writing is so good!" — Dec 19, 2025 11:20AM
"Haunting, subtle until it's not, things are beginning to unravel now while also tightening their grip on our leads. The writing is so good!" — Dec 19, 2025 11:20AM
And let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like wanting to do something so bad and then turning your back on it when it’s within your reach, never finding out what could have been.
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Pooh's Little Instruction Book
― Pooh's Little Instruction Book
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
― Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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