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"I have only read 144 pages yet I feel this is going to be disappointing and not as epic as I had envisioned. Boring dialogues, rapid POV changes and overall story going nowhere. 😭😭" — Aug 07, 2025 02:00PM
"I have only read 144 pages yet I feel this is going to be disappointing and not as epic as I had envisioned. Boring dialogues, rapid POV changes and overall story going nowhere. 😭😭" — Aug 07, 2025 02:00PM
some villains are scary because how close they are to being just like us
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Manon ballerina
― Manon ballerina
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
― The Real Thing
― The Real Thing
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