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Vickie is Currently Reading

Vickie is currently reading

Reverie

by Ryan La Sala (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobooks-and-audiodrama, fantasy-sci-fi, lgbt

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— Apr 16, 2026 08:04AM

Apr 08, 2026 08:09AM

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

by Anne Rice

bookshelves: fantasy-sci-fi, currently-reading

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Sep 17, 2013 07:40AM

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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

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Vickie’s Quotes

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4385 likes

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”
― Caroline Gordon

tags: books, imagination, writing

2611 likes

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148696 likes

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy

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