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Archita Mitra
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She had thought he would always be there to watch over her, but that incident had been a front-on attack, and when the person who harmed you was the only one you actually trusted . . . she clenched her hands, which had begun to shake
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When I began the book, I was convinced that Ye Hua was an abusive husband - a cold immortal toying with the feelings of a lonely mortal woman to breed a child - and did I hate him.
It is testament to the great story that they would take this character, a veritable villain, and make him into a romantic hero. Not even a dark, brooding romantic hero - an expressive, feminist hero!
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
― The Eternity Code
― The Eternity Code
“Once I dreamed I kept a perfect little bed and breakfast by the seaside, and to everyone who came to stay with me I would say, in that tongue, 'Be whole,' and they would become whole, not be broken people, not any longer, because I had spoken the language of shaping.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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