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"I just spent two hours within Book I, because this time I want to inhale everything. There's so much hidden within these lines once you take a closer look.
For example everyone around Achilles is described with words like "wrath", "anger", "rage", but not him. We only know how emotional Achilles is by the way he speaks. When it comes to him it's "show, don't tell" and not just "tell" like the other characters." — Jan 21, 2026 01:52PM
"I just spent two hours within Book I, because this time I want to inhale everything. There's so much hidden within these lines once you take a closer look.
For example everyone around Achilles is described with words like "wrath", "anger", "rage", but not him. We only know how emotional Achilles is by the way he speaks. When it comes to him it's "show, don't tell" and not just "tell" like the other characters." — Jan 21, 2026 01:52PM
Sometimes I think you prefer it down there, I had said to her, holding her face in my hands and wondering whether I meant it to sound like a joke or reproach, you go so deep you forget you’re supposed to come back.
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“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!”
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“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
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Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Romance, Science, Thriller, and Young-adult
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