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Jos Trinidad
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Jos Trinidad
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""Jon had let men like Jimmy set the terms. But the terms were false, even to him. He was just as scared as anybody else.
Bravery, Joan suspected, is almost always a lie. Courage is all we have."" — Nov 10, 2025 09:39PM
""Jon had let men like Jimmy set the terms. But the terms were false, even to him. He was just as scared as anybody else.
Bravery, Joan suspected, is almost always a lie. Courage is all we have."" — Nov 10, 2025 09:39PM
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"Okay thoughts so far are: not her best but definitely the bones of her better works. There's something about this that makes it feel a little bit more unrealistic. The beginning had the right about of suspended reality, but as the book has gone on its feeling too fiction-y." — Nov 07, 2025 11:58AM
"Okay thoughts so far are: not her best but definitely the bones of her better works. There's something about this that makes it feel a little bit more unrealistic. The beginning had the right about of suspended reality, but as the book has gone on its feeling too fiction-y." — Nov 07, 2025 11:58AM
Role Playing
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Some people might think this erratic, possibly a cause for concern. She preferred to think of it as not giving a single, solitary fuck.
“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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