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“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”
― City of Thieves
― City of Thieves
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“But even though she was wise beyond her years, she was still young, and so was I, and all of our words were drowned out by the noise of our beating hearts, screaming at us that we were, after all, creatures of flesh and blood.”
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“I want you to know that I'm just like you, and, just like you, sometimes I have a little trouble holding things together.”
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“Other lives wind themselves into your own and then leave for distant places or wink out like extinguished lamps, and then all the evidence you have that there was ever any time is a few scribbled words and a few blurred pictures. Then those burn in fire or blow away in wind and you have nothing.”
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
― The Dream of Perpetual Motion
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For the general discussion of Historical Fiction. This group will encourage and support the formation of Historical Fiction “Buddy Reads.”
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