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"Finished Sense & Sensibility, and I’m afraid I would have to give it a solid 2 star rating. The characters seem silly from today’s perspective, overly emotional and virtuous (even given the historical context). The descriptions are tedious, the eternal comments on character explain too much." — Jan 23, 2026 03:23AM
"Finished Sense & Sensibility, and I’m afraid I would have to give it a solid 2 star rating. The characters seem silly from today’s perspective, overly emotional and virtuous (even given the historical context). The descriptions are tedious, the eternal comments on character explain too much." — Jan 23, 2026 03:23AM
“She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.”
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“My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
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“And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away”
― A Complicated Kindness
― A Complicated Kindness
“There will be hundreds of sons making the same journey,' he says. 'All of us riding with broken hearts, all of us thinking of vengeance. This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.”
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“So let me see? What do I have? Surprise! Surprise!”
― The Boleyn Inheritance
― The Boleyn Inheritance
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