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"Okay genuine question. This book is super well researched overall, almost to the point of being TOO full of historical detail, and yet... why are these educated monks talking about the work of the devil in an incredibly dualist way (like, peasants definitely would, but highly educated monks??) and also on top of that why are these characters so cautious about questioning authority? It's the 1300s not soviet russia" — Sep 19, 2026 04:22AM
"Okay genuine question. This book is super well researched overall, almost to the point of being TOO full of historical detail, and yet... why are these educated monks talking about the work of the devil in an incredibly dualist way (like, peasants definitely would, but highly educated monks??) and also on top of that why are these characters so cautious about questioning authority? It's the 1300s not soviet russia" — Sep 19, 2026 04:22AM
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"Can confirm this is the best book of the trilogy in case there was ever any doubt" — Nov 29, 2025 09:26AM
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""When the artist is a servant of the work, the work is better than the artist." How is she so GOOD" — Jul 20, 2025 09:25AM
""When the artist is a servant of the work, the work is better than the artist." How is she so GOOD" — Jul 20, 2025 09:25AM
“I saw thee ne'er before;
I see thee never more;
But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.”
― Phantastes
I see thee never more;
But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.”
― Phantastes
“As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the doors she may not enter. Almost we linger with Sorrow for very love.”
― Phantastes
― Phantastes
“God doesn't love me because of what I can do for him. He just loves me - even when I've done nothing at all.”
― Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
― Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
“My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
“I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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