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"This book should actually be titled ‘Why You Don’t Want To Be a Victorian.’" — Feb 19, 2018 02:33AM
"This book should actually be titled ‘Why You Don’t Want To Be a Victorian.’" — Feb 19, 2018 02:33AM
“He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.”
― The Golden Lily
― The Golden Lily
“Would it be possible, he wondered, to stand up before the world and with the utmost conviction spew out lies and nonsense? To say that windmills were knights, that a barber’s basin was a helmet, that puppets were real people? Would it be possible to persuade others to agree with what he said, even though they did not believe him? In other words, to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn’t it? To any extent. For the proof is that we still read the book. It remains highly amusing to us. And that’s finally all anyone wants out of a book—to be amused.”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
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