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"I'm still waiting for the book to properly "start". I still feel like I'm in the "setting the stage" part of it, and I'm growing impatient. I get it. I get the concept, the background, the struggle. Now move along to the story." — Aug 23, 2025 04:04AM
"I'm still waiting for the book to properly "start". I still feel like I'm in the "setting the stage" part of it, and I'm growing impatient. I get it. I get the concept, the background, the struggle. Now move along to the story." — Aug 23, 2025 04:04AM
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"I really don't know why I continue reading this when I know this is just gonna be the typical tropey YA style I don't like much at all" — Sep 18, 2023 07:23AM
"I really don't know why I continue reading this when I know this is just gonna be the typical tropey YA style I don't like much at all" — Sep 18, 2023 07:23AM
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.”
― The Time Machine
― The Time Machine
“Do you not see that this is a divine mission?
No, I do not, you witless cabbage.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
No, I do not, you witless cabbage.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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