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Madara said:
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After finishing this book I read that this was first intended as simple historical romance and turned into time-travel one just because Claire declared herself as a modern-speaking heroine. And it really read like that. Which is the major flaw of thi
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"Oh, the talk/explanation and later Clair's experience of Perpetual Adoration was a balm to my soul! Made me realise how I miss it...
Pity I did not stop then and continued reading. Do the reader really had to know all the details of Jamie's torture? Not me." — Feb 09, 2014 12:50PM
"Oh, the talk/explanation and later Clair's experience of Perpetual Adoration was a balm to my soul! Made me realise how I miss it...
Pity I did not stop then and continued reading. Do the reader really had to know all the details of Jamie's torture? Not me." — Feb 09, 2014 12:50PM
“If I were writing this book,” he said, gesturing to the room around them, “I think I would set up Blightree as a sort of diversion, to draw the reader’s eye away from the true culprit, if we’ve even met him yet. Or her.” “This isn’t a
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“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― The Dream of a Beast
― The Dream of a Beast
“He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through."
"How very rude of him."
"I told him I was."
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
"I am very touched, Harry.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
"How very rude of him."
"I told him I was."
Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.
"I am very touched, Harry.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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