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"“Lucy writes.”
“Lucie worries. She doesn’t say so, but I know she worries, that all her writing will come to nothing.” 🕯️📃🖋️" — Apr 23, 2026 10:29AM
"“Lucy writes.”
“Lucie worries. She doesn’t say so, but I know she worries, that all her writing will come to nothing.” 🕯️📃🖋️" — Apr 23, 2026 10:29AM
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
“Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.”
― القرآن الكريم
― القرآن الكريم
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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