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“Good heavens, no. The prospect of becoming wealthy intrigues me almost as much as the glory of finding the Titanic herself.” He hesitated. “I’m simply wondering if I’ll have the courage to make such a dive. You’re both experienced…you were
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“She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.”
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls or a Scarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs.”
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?”
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
― The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
“Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.”
― The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
― The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“Marriage, it seemed to me, walled my favorite fictional women off from the worlds in which they had once run free, or, if not free, then at least forward, with currents of narrative possibility at their backs. It was often at just the moment that their educations were complete and their childhood ambitions coming into focus that these troublesome, funny girls were suddenly contained, subsumed, and reduced by domesticity.”
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
― All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Amy (Sun)’s 2025 Year in Books
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