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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

“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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“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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

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“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling

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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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