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"Reading this book of nature-inspired poems while sitting on my back porch listening to birdsong and hopefully soon, the lights of fireflies." — Jun 14, 2026 02:17PM
"Reading this book of nature-inspired poems while sitting on my back porch listening to birdsong and hopefully soon, the lights of fireflies." — Jun 14, 2026 02:17PM
The Garden
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She remembered something else, though, from much longer ago. A memory that had taken firmer root. In the book, people went to the sea to get better.
“If Kyle had one weakness—and he didn’t; he had many—it was confident, attractive older men. Also, confident, attractive younger men. Also, men.”
― Common Goal
― Common Goal
“he’d never been forced to hide who he really was. Not in the same way. He’d just chosen not to reveal all of himself, because he’d never needed to.”
― Common Goal
― Common Goal
“Kitty wore her cynicism well, but Leonard had known her before the war and he could see all the stitches that were holding the costume together.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
“He couldn’t shake the feeling that Blake was the sort of man who lived so deeply in denial about so many things, covering that denial with the veneer of a genial man, that he was no longer aware of any sort of truth at all.”
― Just a Little Danger
― Just a Little Danger
“He wouldn’t ever describe himself as a flirt, but he supposed most flirts wouldn’t. He knew how to make people feel that they were the center of the universe, that was all. There was something worth liking in nearly everybody, and it was no hardship to figure out what it was. The trick was to do so while also hinting, in the vaguest of ways, that it might be nice if they were able to continue this charming conversation in the nearest bed.”
― Two Rogues Make a Right
― Two Rogues Make a Right
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