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"I'm only two stories in, but I really loved Be Not Afraid by Ashia Monet. Great message/commentary, really interesting MC, and it was also fitting having just come from reading more of BWoC2." — Apr 05, 2026 02:03PM
"I'm only two stories in, but I really loved Be Not Afraid by Ashia Monet. Great message/commentary, really interesting MC, and it was also fitting having just come from reading more of BWoC2." — Apr 05, 2026 02:03PM
“For one who grew to manhood believing himself to be an orphan," Eleanor said, "you are surprisingly familiar with the weeds found in family gardens."
[...]
"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Cruel as the Grave
[...]
"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Cruel as the Grave
“What proportion of the peasantry was well off and what poor is judged by what they bequeathed, and since the poorest had nothing to leave, they remain mute. For no other class is that famous goal of the historian, wie es wirklich war (how it really was), so elusive.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“[A]s with all His Majesty's ships, you shall find yourself living amongst an odd cabal of both rogues and gentlemen. Be clever, Henry. Model yourself upon the gentlemen.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“She had never before possessed the courage for such remonstrance, but love had emboldened her, and her mind felt like an immaculate engine.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. [...] The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos—the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path.
Nobody stopped her.
She was a comet.
She did not know that she was not flying.”
― The Signature of All Things
Nobody stopped her.
She was a comet.
She did not know that she was not flying.”
― The Signature of All Things
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