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"The next story when I read it is called, 'Three Bladed Doom'." — Dec 10, 2025 07:45AM
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"I just finished reading 'Boot Hill Pay-Off' another enjoyable story for 'June On The Range', an on going Booktube event. I'm taking a break from Western stories for a while as there's other stories calling." — Jun 11, 2025 07:46AM
"I just finished reading 'Boot Hill Pay-Off' another enjoyable story for 'June On The Range', an on going Booktube event. I'm taking a break from Western stories for a while as there's other stories calling." — Jun 11, 2025 07:46AM
“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?
Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?”
― Drood
Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?”
― Drood
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
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“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung.”
― Song of Kali
― Song of Kali
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