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""All the rivers run into the sea, but the seas are not yet full" struck me in the heart like a dagger. Mantel is beyond compare in painting grief" — Jun 19, 2025 05:58PM
""All the rivers run into the sea, but the seas are not yet full" struck me in the heart like a dagger. Mantel is beyond compare in painting grief" — Jun 19, 2025 05:58PM
“Shyness is shit. It isn’t cute or feminine or appealing. It’s torment, and it’s shit.”
― Bloodchild and Other Stories
― Bloodchild and Other Stories
“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble."
"But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.”
― Lords and Ladies
"But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg.
"That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.”
― Lords and Ladies
“Why will it not work. What magic word made it work. Who is the keeper of that word. What did it profit Him to switch this one off. What a contraption it is. How did it ever run. What spark ran it. Grand little machine. Set up just so. Receiving the spark, it jumped to life.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Trap. Horrible trap. At one’s birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget. Lord, what is this?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
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