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"“Not even for the purpose of pleasing those who demand, according to the rules of melodrama, a more bitter and more prejudiced view, can I represent him other than he was.... I have no doubt in my mind that in many of the things he did he was actuated by the purest kind-ness. Neither then nor now can I conjure a pose as the conventional world demands… ” -Evelyn regarding her assailant" — Jul 09, 2026 06:46AM
"“Not even for the purpose of pleasing those who demand, according to the rules of melodrama, a more bitter and more prejudiced view, can I represent him other than he was.... I have no doubt in my mind that in many of the things he did he was actuated by the purest kind-ness. Neither then nor now can I conjure a pose as the conventional world demands… ” -Evelyn regarding her assailant" — Jul 09, 2026 06:46AM
she must be a sorceress, because no female could sail a ship so deftly without the use of forbidden magics—whose appearance somehow both beguiles and repulses. Traders along our fair shores warn against speaking her name as though she is a
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“She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“novels are untrustworthy advisers. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Be glad you don’t get it. It means your life has been a lot gentler than hers.”
― Just for the Summer
― Just for the Summer
“Just his luck that the sensation of dancing with her had branded itself on his daydreams. She was like a palmful of mercury: achingly lustrous in light or gloom, slipping cool through his fingers. Gone before he could catch his fist closed.”
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
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