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Grendel (FANTASY MASTERWORKS) by John Gardner

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Then all at once there they’d be again, the indifferent, burning eyes of the strangers. Or my mother’s eyes. Again my world would be suddenly transformed, fixed like a rose with a nail through it, space hurtling coldly out from me in all ...more

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“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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“I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?”
― Emily Bronte

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