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“I wanted to cry.
I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it.”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
I also wanted to go to my laboratory and prepare an enormous batch of nitrogen triiodide with which to blow up, in a spectacular mushroom cloud of purple vapor, the world and everyone in it.”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
“Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
― The Girl in the Tower
― The Girl in the Tower
“Could it be that goodness waxes and wanes like the moon, and that only evil is constant?”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
― Speaking from Among the Bones
“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders?”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
― Speaking from Among the Bones
“I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
Adrienne’s 2025 Year in Books
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