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"“I just totally forget to eat when I’m stressed!! Oops it’s been 3 days!!” 🙄" — Aug 19, 2026 04:32PM
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"- Elin is very "readable" but it does sometimes grate that her writing style (at least in this book, I can't remember if it was like this in the 2 others I've read) is very exposition-y. Lots of telling instead of showing.
- This might be an audio quirk but some of the switches between perspectives feel jarring and fast. Maybe it would feel smoother reading in print.
- Electra is a way too on the nose villain name." — Aug 11, 2026 07:04PM
"- Elin is very "readable" but it does sometimes grate that her writing style (at least in this book, I can't remember if it was like this in the 2 others I've read) is very exposition-y. Lots of telling instead of showing.
- This might be an audio quirk but some of the switches between perspectives feel jarring and fast. Maybe it would feel smoother reading in print.
- Electra is a way too on the nose villain name." — Aug 11, 2026 07:04PM
I swear I’ve been able to smell you through the wall for the past forty minutes and . . . Well, let’s just say you’re back in the splash zone.”
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”
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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
― The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”
― Interpreter Of Maladies
― Interpreter Of Maladies
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
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