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""Our tale begins on a Thursday afternoon, the most ordinary of ordinary afternoons, a few days shy of the most unordinary day of the entire year." Unfortunately, I am charmed by the Snicket-esque prose..." — Sep 08, 2026 09:16AM
""Our tale begins on a Thursday afternoon, the most ordinary of ordinary afternoons, a few days shy of the most unordinary day of the entire year." Unfortunately, I am charmed by the Snicket-esque prose..." — Sep 08, 2026 09:16AM
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"It was almost as if he wanted to be found out, to shed the old secrets so that he would have room for new ones. He knew that his childhood misfortune hadn't been his fault. It was his father's doing…But the past clung to him, just as the mildew and smoke and misery-stench of the Marshalsea rose from his jacket as he'd sat in the blacking-shop window…He would never escape the prison." — Sep 14, 2026 01:15PM
"It was almost as if he wanted to be found out, to shed the old secrets so that he would have room for new ones. He knew that his childhood misfortune hadn't been his fault. It was his father's doing…But the past clung to him, just as the mildew and smoke and misery-stench of the Marshalsea rose from his jacket as he'd sat in the blacking-shop window…He would never escape the prison." — Sep 14, 2026 01:15PM
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Luc would never have consented to receiving anything that wasn’t equally distributed to all the rest of the Resistance, and that included medical care and healing. He’d struggled with having paladins sworn to protect him, despite it being a
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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.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“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.”
― The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
― The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
“She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.”
― The Power
― The Power
“Life, it—it doesn’t work that way.” “Why doesn’t it?” she snapped. “Why can’t life work whatever way we want it to? What’s the point of living if you only do it how others want you to?”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“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.”
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