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Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, romance, historical-fiction, mythology

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Mar 15, 2026 07:31AM

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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