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Swamp Thing: The Bronze Age Omnibus

by Len Wein

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Mar 17, 2026 11:28AM

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: books, character-development, growth, reading

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“Anywhere there's people, there's a possibility of evil, wouldn't you say?”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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“Bongo is an excellent watchdog, by which I mean that he will watch very alertly as the serial killer breaks into the house and skins me.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones

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“I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

tags: world-revolves-around

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“Miri said this to me once: Every horror movie ends the way you know it will.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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