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“As long as I have my trousers I have my hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it." -Lestrade, Hound of the Baskervilles.”
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“When you are telling a story, you can suggest things that would get you in trouble if you were just stating your own opinion. And you can suggest even more if you wrap one tale inside another. So if you're telling a tale about a merchant, and the merchant tells a tale about a barber, and the barber tells a tale about a fisherman... Well in the fisherman's tale you can put the most provoking and mutinous truths. Because the tale is so far removed from you.”
― Shadow Spinner
― Shadow Spinner
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of a rational opposition.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Time passes strangely when you are sleeping. You can close your eyes when it is night, then open them again and see morning. Yet the hours that went by seemed no longer than the drifting journey of a leaf in a soft breeze.
Strange, wonderous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost and found. ~Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep.~ And then we awake, with disappointment, or relief, as if nothing ever happened.”
― The Sandman and the War of Dreams
Strange, wonderous, and terrible adventures are the norm in dreams. uncharted lands come and go. Dream epics play out. Wars are fought and won. Loved ones are lost and found. ~Entirely different lives are lived as we sleep.~ And then we awake, with disappointment, or relief, as if nothing ever happened.”
― The Sandman and the War of Dreams
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Ayla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ayla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,729 books
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139 friends
2,668 books
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200 friends
44 books
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3,117 books
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214 books
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423 books
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171 books
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8 books
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Biography, Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Music, Poetry, and Young-adult
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