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"Keep forgetting to add this on here. I've been reading a chapter most nights to my daughters as a bedtime story." — Nov 20, 2025 08:18AM
"Keep forgetting to add this on here. I've been reading a chapter most nights to my daughters as a bedtime story." — Nov 20, 2025 08:18AM
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"This is fun, but uhhhh where is the Doctor? Really weird choice to keep him absent for so long, especially when we just had a new companion join the TARDIS in the last book. This should be Benny's first big adventure, and she and the Doctor are both totally AWOL so far." — Nov 17, 2025 09:49AM
"This is fun, but uhhhh where is the Doctor? Really weird choice to keep him absent for so long, especially when we just had a new companion join the TARDIS in the last book. This should be Benny's first big adventure, and she and the Doctor are both totally AWOL so far." — Nov 17, 2025 09:49AM
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing.”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.”
― A Civil Campaign
― A Civil Campaign
“Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?"
Absently he replied, "I was, once."
"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."
"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep.”
―
Absently he replied, "I was, once."
"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?"
... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live."
"Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep.”
―
“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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