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Oh boy, I'm done with the 5th book in The Dark Tower series, and it was so delightful. I am in love with Roland, Jake, Oy, Eddie and Susannah. During this story, the reader is introduced to a new town and characters as Roland and his ka-tet follow th
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“It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness—that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.”
― The Turn of the Screw
― The Turn of the Screw
“Done is better than perfect.”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.”
― The Invention of Wings
― The Invention of Wings
“People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.”
― The Crow
― The Crow
“In this universe there might grow roses which sing.”
― It
― It
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