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Oh my damn, perfect. The only reason it took me two days to read this is because I'm a slow reader and I have a job. It felt like I was breathless through most of it. I'm pretty terrified to read book 2 for fear it might somehow taint how much I ADOR
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“Can I help you?” said the footman. Richard had been told to fuck off and die with more warmth and good humor.
“There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.”
― Sense And Sensibility
― Sense And Sensibility
“Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.”
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“I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.”
― As Meat Loves Salt
― As Meat Loves Salt
“Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”
― Kushiel's Chosen
― Kushiel's Chosen
“He took with him into private life his enemies and his wounds, the only profits that generally accrue to honest people who are guilty of having worked for their country rather than for themselves.”
― The Black Tulip
― The Black Tulip
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