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Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)

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Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

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Yet I feel that my father put this dark place in me that brings sadness on me unawares, when I should be happy to have my good place and such friends as I have

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

tags: noir

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified..”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-brontë, jane-eyre

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“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell

tags: confirmation, reading, reality

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“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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