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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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“The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“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
“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
“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“In this universe there might grow roses which sing.”
― It
― It
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