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Mood Swings

by Frankie Barnet

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

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Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

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And you will arrive under a soldier’s black mantle With your fearful greenish candle And will not show your face to me. But the riddle cannot torment me for long: Whose hand is here, under that white glove Who sent this wanderer, who comes ...more

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: death, love

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“When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: eternity, forever, moment, now

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