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“somewhere on the spectrum between spineless and scumbag”

i said something funny to the author and he gifted me a copy of this book…. i think i have no choice but to follow all his advice

Still I’m possibilistic. The next generation is like the last runner in a very long relay race. The race to end extreme poverty has been a marathon, with the starter gun fired in 1800.

““Now, Hans, we have loaded the laundry. The machine will do the work. So now we can go to the library.” In went the laundry, and out cane books. Thank you industrialization, thank you steel mill, thank you power station, thank you chemical-processing industry, for giving us the time to read books.”

“You are only quite a little fellow in a wide world, after all”
“Thank goodness,” said Bilbo, laughing, and handed him the tobacco jar.

“If more of us valued food, and cheer, and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”

“In Sweden, a fatal bear attack is a once-in-a-century event. Meanwhile, a woman is killed by her partner every 30 days… people who care about saving lives should be much more concerned about domestic violence than about bears.”

this was written like ten years ago is this a coincidence or is this the sourc

DNF, the libby app claimed this one before i could finish it

might give the series another try starting from book one, but so far it doesn’t seem like my cup of tea

“As a possibilst, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are.”

i swear to god if there’s another comment about how Ianthe is just sooooooo much prettier better more charming than the POV character because she’s so awkward and out of place i’m gonna DNF

yes i’m starting on book two it was available on libby & i need smth to read when i’m on break at work

i didn’t finish ASOS on time… goodbye GRRM until we meet again in 12 to 18 weeks 💔

“She set her mouth grimly and gave her head a shake, and the bell in her braid chimed softly”

YESSSS subtle reminder of the bells in her hair from the battles she’s won, while she’s coping with being kissed by a creepy old man she thought she could trust

“It was even worse than before! Lady Smallwood insisted that Arya take another bath, and cut and comb her hair besides”

i love arya she’s so me at 10 years old

TANSY TEA YOU SAY??

“And her lady mother, what would she say? Would she still want her back, after all the things she’d done?”

i’m gonna cry… arya if only you knew the lengths your mother is going to so she can see you again

“ ‘She is stronger than I am,’ he thought. The realization chilled him”

I KNOW THATS RIGHT 😛😛😛
Brienne the woman that you are <3 holding her own against the strongest knight in the seven kingdoms YUPPPPPP

“Not bad”
“For a wench?”
“For a squire, say. A green one,” He laughed, a ragged, breathless laugh, “Come on, cone on my sweetling. The music’s still playing. Might I have this dance?”

Okayyyyyy first time she’s been asked to dance since renley <3 love is real

“The swords kissed, and swang apart, and kissed again. This is what Jaime was meant for. He never felt so alive”

okay freaks just have sex already

“the notion of keeping faith when they all expected betrayal amused him more than he could say”

“Robb rubbed his temples where the crown had left its mark in the soft skin above his ears”

okayyyy imagery and metaphor i see you

“I know,” Her son said, stricken. “I’ve made a botch of everything but the battles, haven’t I? I thought the battles would be the hard part,”

ROBBBBBBBB 💔

he’s only 16 :((
i wish the show had given him more moments of vulnerability like this

i like that robb is more sympathetic to his mother in the book than he was in the show. he seemed to not care about his sisters at all in the show it broke my heart :(

“All these kings would do a great deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers”

if only this diva could have met catelyn stark i feel like they would’ve had so much fun gossiping together

libby has finally delivered the 3rd book to me 🙌🙌 how i have missed my close personal friend Roy Dotrice

i have 20 days to listen to 47h of audiobook else i shall face the wrath of the waitlist once again…………….

listening to the audiobook is my fave part of my morning

the end of chap 17 is perfect i can feel the desperation

i wondered if i fucked it up. but if i hadn’t done it, i’s have wondered something else. life is a series of choices between wonders

you can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really. just like touching someone else’s body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body

i felt the need to board up the windows of my self

“Everyone seemed to assume I knew what the hell a tuatara was”

my exact thoughts while reading this section 😭