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The law was writ by men and so it does not surprise me that you have it behind you. What do I have behind me but this bolster – and an invisible army of a thousand angry women with gnashing teeth and hellfire in their eyes?
will tattoo this on my face
“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― Mostly Sally
― Mostly Sally
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree—the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death—Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar structures.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
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Trees of Reverie Read-A-Thon
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This is the official Goodreads Group for Trees of Reverie Read-A-Thon events! The Trees of Reverie YOU Read-A-Long will be hosted here! Original post ...more
The Plantagenets
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— last activity Dec 01, 2025 10:47PM
This is a group for those who enjoy reading nonfiction and fiction about one of England's most fascinating dynasties. Discuss the Plantagenet kings, t ...more
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