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“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
gourds’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at gourds’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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39 friends
218 books
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156 books
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180 books
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23 books
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51 books
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, History, Horror, Manga, Non-fiction, Poetry, Religion, and Science fiction
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