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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
“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
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“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
“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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