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"Wasn't crazy about the first story, but the second focused on Elaine of Carbonek feels like a future favorite. Trying to tickle my brain into writing my own Arthurian story for a collection out next year, and I think it's starting to work." — Mar 25, 2026 09:30AM
"Wasn't crazy about the first story, but the second focused on Elaine of Carbonek feels like a future favorite. Trying to tickle my brain into writing my own Arthurian story for a collection out next year, and I think it's starting to work." — Mar 25, 2026 09:30AM
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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