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The Poisoned King
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""The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs, and forget that inside they are both strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing."" Nov 20, 2025 06:12PM

 
Lost Treasure of ...
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"“Friends together! Mice forever!”

Shouldn’t it be the other way around, though? Mice together, friends forever? The characters being mice forever isn’t exactly a question."
Nov 18, 2025 07:39AM

 
Bring Me Back
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Katherine Rundell
“Do not wait for people to be faultless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. Such things are worth more than riddles.”
Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell
“But Christopher didn't have the words, then, to explain what, nonetheless, he knew: that sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. 'It's a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we've chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship!”
Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell
“Do not wait for people to be flawless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway. (p. 169)”
Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

Katherine Rundell
“Stop expecting life to get easier. It never does; that is not where its goodness lies.”
Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures

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