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"And what we are seeing now are the memories you never lived but which are inside you, facts pressed deep into you from before you even heard them…He had imagined the event a thousand times over, had spent countless hours as a child staring up to the clouds and thinking about it, wondering what his father had thought in his final moments. It was a strange thing, to grieve someone he had never known." — 7 hours, 19 min ago
"And what we are seeing now are the memories you never lived but which are inside you, facts pressed deep into you from before you even heard them…He had imagined the event a thousand times over, had spent countless hours as a child staring up to the clouds and thinking about it, wondering what his father had thought in his final moments. It was a strange thing, to grieve someone he had never known." — 7 hours, 19 min ago
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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
""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
“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Blood Wedding and Yerma
― Blood Wedding and Yerma
“Time never stopped, though it often felt elastic.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“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
“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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“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
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