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After I did, there came heavy footfalls towards me. The door swung open—goodness, that man can swing a door almost as well as he can throw open a curtain.
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.”
― القرآن الكريم
― القرآن الكريم
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
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“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
― The Waste Land
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”
― The Waste Land
maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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