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"There are books that feel like a mental work-out, and I feel like this is going to be one of those, but I need something with an extremely low difficulty setting right now." — May 16, 2026 02:03AM
"There are books that feel like a mental work-out, and I feel like this is going to be one of those, but I need something with an extremely low difficulty setting right now." — May 16, 2026 02:03AM
xylatra
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"He didn't believe his mother when she said that she saw a leprechaun as a little girl?! Aw.. That made me sad, lol." — Jan 26, 2025 10:09PM
"He didn't believe his mother when she said that she saw a leprechaun as a little girl?! Aw.. That made me sad, lol." — Jan 26, 2025 10:09PM
“They were watching so that they could see if death were coming. Eyes that had seen it before and knew the colors it traveled under and what it looked like when it got there.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“One hit, and I’m a fucking addict. It’s insane to know she’s going to be mine for the rest of our lives.”
― The Wrong Bride
― The Wrong Bride
“My books always say something, even if it’s just something simple like: 'Don’t genetically engineer crabs to be as big as men.”
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“He half wondered if he were not dead and in his despair he felt well up in him a surge of sorrow like a child beginning to cry but it brought with it such pain that he stopped it colkd and began at once his new life and the living of it breath to breath.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“He polished the underside of the messtray with the sleeve of his shift and standing in the center of the room under the lightbulb he studied the face that peered dimly out of the warped steel like some maimed and raging djinn encounjured there.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
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