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"Honestly, I don’t think this is worth this torture. I said I wouldn’t DNF and I rarely do but I just don’t see any payoff on this one." — Jan 17, 2026 09:42AM
"Honestly, I don’t think this is worth this torture. I said I wouldn’t DNF and I rarely do but I just don’t see any payoff on this one." — Jan 17, 2026 09:42AM
Fevre Dream
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He had a red face and a full black beard that he wore to cover up a flat, pushed-in nose and a faceful of warts, but even the whiskers didn’t help much; they called him the ugliest man on the river, and he knew it. In
“ANNOYED THAT THE “Love ya” I would have normally received at the end of a call with Garrett had been downgraded to a “See ya,” I slapped my phone flat on the couch and yelled “What a jerk!” at the ceiling.”
― Theme Music
― Theme Music
“Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me. There are many things to think of. There is much story.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.’ ‘Parallel lives?’ ‘Not always parallel. Some are more . . . perpendicular.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“There was no way I’d be able to sleep tonight, or sit through school tomorrow. I had to go now.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One
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