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“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“You know that history is mostly happenstance. Accidents piled on top of mistakes, a series of dice rolled in dim rooms by careless hands. It is not a lesson, until we learn it. It is not a story, until we tell it. And every story serves someone.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree.”
― Woman, Eating
― Woman, Eating
“I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot—I took you to this killing field as my slave—you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
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aleks’s 2025 Year in Books
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