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It’s nice in a way, how books change. If the magic and illumination isn’t in the story anymore, the magic and illumination was always in you. The story caught a reflection of you at the right time.

Kitsch never asks us to change; empty entertainment provides fleeting thrills. Propaganda discourages symbolic complexity to achieve immediate legibility.

Where there is no value, other than money, honor is meaningless; and where there is no honor, there cannot be shame. And without shame, infamy and esteem, become in distinguishable.

She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

Galadriel is Elrond’s mother-in-law. And Arwen’s grandma. 🤯

‘Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. […] Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year was somebody’s birthday, so that every hobbit in the parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.’ Man, hobbits rule.

‘It was a pity about the little ponytail.’ Ahahahahaha!

Melodrama was for heroes, and people who had too much spare time.

Final Destination, Island Edition!

5’8” is not average for a woman. It’s above average. I’ve seen this in other romances, too…

The big questions you have to answer in a Groundhog Day plot once it’s in motion are: 1) in this universe, does the movie exist? and 2) if it does exist, have the characters seen it?

Oh no. The hero just decided the lady is Not Like Other Girls. Time to DNF.