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people orbited him like they might a fire on a cold night—needing to be close, but fearing the true heat of his presence. Those haunted eyes of his, simmering with passion.
“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.”
― A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold
― A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold
“The North remembers.”
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“I am thoughtful—full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless—acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand nor examine.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
“When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. "When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When my womb quickens again, and I bear a living child. Then you will return, my sun-and-stars, and not before." -Daenerys Targaryen”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
Alyssa’s 2025 Year in Books
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