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"Буремні часи настають завжди, коли здається, ніби запанував тривалий мир." — Mar 20, 2026 08:49AM
"Буремні часи настають завжди, коли здається, ніби запанував тривалий мир." — Mar 20, 2026 08:49AM
spend my entire life cooking, I’m a slave to housework – chained to the cooker … all those meals, day after day, and what happens to them? They get eaten, that’s what, without a word of thanks!
“He’d seen it in others, the consequences of failing to choose companions wisely. One slightly immoral person was a problem. Two together was a catastrophe. All it took was a fateful meeting. A person who told you your meanest desires, your basest thoughts, weren’t so bad. In fact, he shared them.”
― How the Light Gets In
― How the Light Gets In
“He knew, as a man used to fear, the great danger of letting it take control. It distorted reality. Consumed reality. Fear created its own reality.”
― How the Light Gets In
― How the Light Gets In
“I felt as though I’d been visiting, last night, all the houses in this great world one by one and had gathered together whatever there was of grief and hopelessness, and brought it back to bury it in my own heart.”
― Çalikuşu (the Wren): The Complete English Translation
― Çalikuşu (the Wren): The Complete English Translation
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