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"Kinda slow now. And depressing. No matter what you do differently, fate will still strike? Is that the lesson we’re learning?" — 5 hours, 5 min ago
"Kinda slow now. And depressing. No matter what you do differently, fate will still strike? Is that the lesson we’re learning?" — 5 hours, 5 min ago
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"Turns out, this book analyses the movies rather than the ones watching them. Or at least not on the deeper psychological level I was hoping for." — Jan 07, 2026 10:49AM
"Turns out, this book analyses the movies rather than the ones watching them. Or at least not on the deeper psychological level I was hoping for." — Jan 07, 2026 10:49AM
“It was a glorious thing, to be given hope, when all had seemed lost.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“Neither of them could tell who had made the first move, or whether they acted in unison. They were holding each other tightly before they knew what happened, Robin's chin on Strike's shoulder, his face in her hair. He smelled of sweat, beer and surgical spirits, she, of roses and the faint perfume that he had missed when she was no longer in the office. The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for year. Through the closed door upstairs the band playing on:
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine ...”
― Lethal White
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine ...”
― Lethal White
“It was four in the morning, the hopeless hour when shivering insomniacs inhabit a world of hollow shadow, and existence seems frail and strange.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Lethal White
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Lethal White
“You can bloody hate someone and still wish they gave a shit about you and hate yourself for wishing it.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
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