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Helena is Currently Reading

Helena is currently reading

If All the Stars Go Dark

by S.G. Prince (Goodreads Author)

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May 26, 2026 09:42AM

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Alchemised

by SenLinYu (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, own-ebook, romance

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""You're like a rose in a graveyard," he said, and his lips twisted into a bitter smile. "I wonder what you could have turned into without the war."" — May 08, 2026 01:12PM

Feb 09, 2026 11:57AM

“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: forster, maurice, maurice-hall

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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

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“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

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“Time never stopped, though it often felt elastic.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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“So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur ever existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

tags: john-steinbeck, king-arthur

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