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Selected Poems

by John Keats

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Oct 11, 2026 07:47PM

alma’s Quotes

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: sansa-stark

1439 likes

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

12879 likes

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice

905 likes

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

tags: hardness, longing, yearning

489 likes

“We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

tags: legacy

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