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max theodore said:
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it feels deeply silly to goodreads-review beowulf. like, it's beowulf. famous-old-english-poem-from-like-the-year-900 beowulf. what can i possibly say about it. what is the pointi fully understand why this is the first thing i had to read for this ye ...more "
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"testament to headley’s poetry that i didn’t throw this book at “hashtag: blessed”" — Jul 02, 2026 01:50PM
"testament to headley’s poetry that i didn’t throw this book at “hashtag: blessed”" — Jul 02, 2026 01:50PM
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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“Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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