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“All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and ambition look ahead.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
Shanae’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shanae’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Fantasy and Young-adult
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