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“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
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“Nora will leave that girl some day; but though those two were buried at opposite ends of the earth, one dog will find them both.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
lyra’s 2024 Year in Books
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