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Winry Weiss
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by Bram Stoker
bookshelves:
1841-1913,
mystery-paranormal-horror,
言語-eng,
victorian-edwardian-1837-1914,
currently-reading
Reading for the 3rd time
read in August 2025
Winry Weiss said:
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This book is truly a gem of Victorian literature. Which indeed means that the pace is slow for today's standards, it's a bit misogynistic and xenophobic, and it's so delightfully loquacious that one might side-eye the English dictionary while reading
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“It takes a special kind of man to give serious consideration to a cat.”
― Starter Villain
― Starter Villain
“I very much doubt that such uncanny entities as might be invoked by a curse need to bind their victims with rope.”
― Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Neb-Heka-Ra
― Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of Neb-Heka-Ra
“A man may not believe in the supernatural, [...] but be plagued by phantoms nonetheless. Regret is the ghost that never rests. It rattles its chains and whispers its doleful complaint in one's ear at all hours, until one's dying day, and one cannot help but listen.”
― Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors
― Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors
“Just because we want an explanation—just because we need an explanation—doesn’t mean the universe is obliged to provide one.”
― When the Moon Hits Your Eye
― When the Moon Hits Your Eye
“In the first lesson Dominus Lukel had discussed fighting [a dragon] without armour, shield, lance, sword, or proper training. That class had been a roll-call of almost-famous heroes who had died facing definitely-famous dragons.
I had no armour, shield, lance or sword, and as for proper trainig, well… Dominus Lukel didn't pretend he'd ever seen a dragon, much less fought one.
I did, however, have a cake knife.
And an off-set spatula.”
― Bee Sting Cake
I had no armour, shield, lance or sword, and as for proper trainig, well… Dominus Lukel didn't pretend he'd ever seen a dragon, much less fought one.
I did, however, have a cake knife.
And an off-set spatula.”
― Bee Sting Cake
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