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But also, fuck JK Rowling lol get herrrrrr. Here for the parody!" — 1 hour, 53 min ago
"Vague improvement now we seem to be past a bunch of inspirational conversations.
But also, fuck JK Rowling lol get herrrrrr. Here for the parody!" — 1 hour, 53 min ago
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"I'm really enjoying this so far! Jumped away from it to read Death in the Spires for the GR challenge (gotta get my useless digital bookmark) but I'm going straight back when I'm finished reading that." — Dec 28, 2025 02:23PM
"I'm really enjoying this so far! Jumped away from it to read Death in the Spires for the GR challenge (gotta get my useless digital bookmark) but I'm going straight back when I'm finished reading that." — Dec 28, 2025 02:23PM
“That which does not kill us,” I said, “has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.”
― Broken Homes
― Broken Homes
“And all this, she thought, is only momentary, is only a fragment in time that will never come again, for yesterday already belongs to the past and is ours no longer, and tomorrow is an unknown thing that may be hostile. This is our day, our moment, the sun belongs to us, and the wind, and the sea, and the men for'ard there singing on the deck. This day is forever a day to be held and cherished, because in it we shall have lived, and loved, and nothing else matters but that in this world of our own making to which we have escaped.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things separate from one another, and not the one, gloriously intermingled, so that to be fierce was also to be gentle, so that silence was a speaking without words.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemperately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth spin; to have - positively - a rush of friendship for stones and grasses, as if humanity were over, and as for men and women, let them go hang - there is no getting over the fact that this desire seizes up pretty often.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
“For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.”
― Frenchman's Creek
― Frenchman's Creek
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