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I had always been an imaginative child. My parents had said I was a liar. Perhaps I was. But when you leave an intelligent child to their own devices, they have to devote themselves to something.
“Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she found the best sort of perfection--the kind that never demands it of others.”
― Keturah and Lord Death
― Keturah and Lord Death
“Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.”
― Child of the Prophecy
― Child of the Prophecy
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
― The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
ONTD Book Club
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Welcome to the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge! This year, inspired by the recent ONTD renaissance, we are going all-in with books inspired by classic O ...more
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