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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

by Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)

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Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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""Because he was an artist, his testimony turns mere waste and misery into that useful thing, tragedy." 🔥" — Aug 23, 2026 06:35PM

Jul 31, 2026 09:50AM

“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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“The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

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