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Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 3

by Priest

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May 10, 2026 01:05AM

“I had a sense of myself as a haunted house. I never knew when the invisible thing would strike – and it was like a blow, a kind of winding in the chest or stomach. When I felt it I would cry out at the force of it. Sometimes I lay curled up on the floor. Sometimes I kneeled and gripped a piece of furniture. This is one moment . . . know that another . . . Hold on, hold on, hold on.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“Instead of a few months, the doctors gave him a year. That was how you could be lucky without being lucky. That was how you could be a winner and still lose.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

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“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black

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“I could not smash the ice that separated me from myself, I could only let it melt.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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“Jeanette, will you tell me why?’ ‘What why?’ ‘You know what why . . .’ But I don’t know what why . . . what I am . . . why I don’t please her. What she wants. Why I am not what she wants. What I want or why. But there is something I know: ‘When I am with her I am happy. Just happy.’ She nodded. She seemed to understand and I thought, really, for that second, that she would change her mind, that we would talk, that we would be on the same side of the glass wall. I waited. She said, ‘Why be happy when you could be normal?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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