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This slapped — I see now why this series gets the kind of hype it does, and obviously I’ve just checked the other five out from the library. Curious if Reid is a fic author because she uses some stylistic conventions of the genre (I’m thinking about
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"*Kronk from Emperor’s New Groove voice* ohhh yeah. it’s all happening." — 7 hours, 36 min ago
"*Kronk from Emperor’s New Groove voice* ohhh yeah. it’s all happening." — 7 hours, 36 min ago
“I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron.”
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“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious act and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Nona the Ninth
― Nona the Ninth
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“That’s right. He is Charls. I am Charls. We are cousins,’ said Charls, gamely, ‘named after our grandfather. Charls.”
― Kings Rising
― Kings Rising
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