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"She felt a depression of spirits, a quickened sense of loss as if ghosts could haunt with their absence as much as by their presence." — Jun 14, 2026 10:38PM
"She felt a depression of spirits, a quickened sense of loss as if ghosts could haunt with their absence as much as by their presence." — Jun 14, 2026 10:38PM
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"She [Mrs Lecount] twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium. But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit – she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool." — Jun 17, 2026 10:50AM
"She [Mrs Lecount] twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium. But she made one serious mistake which very clever people in their intercourse with their intellectual inferiors are almost universally apt to commit – she trusted implicitly to the folly of a fool." — Jun 17, 2026 10:50AM
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
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Jola’s 2025 Year in Books
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