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Oma is on page 153 of 256 of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
« When Ulysses’ [Odysseus’s] companions savoured the exotic lotus, their palates relished the taste that undid them … So I relish the books that have hurt me, love the weapon that inflicted my wounds. » Ovid.
Feb 16, 2026 04:39PM Add a comment
The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

Oma
Oma is on page 153 of 256 of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
“If I'd known the harm I'd suffer from her and her sisters
I'd never have set my hand to their holy game—
but what to do now? I'm hooked.
Creative inspiration has got me.
Though verse-ruined, I’m mad enough to love verse still.”
-Ovid. Tristia.
Feb 16, 2026 01:56PM Add a comment
The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization

Oma
Oma is on page 705 of 960 of Needful Things
“… a couple of murders could not hold a candle to the prospect of a really good holy grudge-match. Because, after all, other things had to take a back seat when it came to questions of religion.”
Feb 04, 2026 12:22PM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 518 of 960 of Needful Things
This is wild lol!
Feb 01, 2026 03:04PM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 323 of 960 of Needful Things
This is both hilarious and horrifying. Such a good read and narrative pacing.
Jan 27, 2026 06:53PM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 274 of 960 of Needful Things
“Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it was the cries of the badly wounded and deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of its axis.”
Jan 26, 2026 12:56PM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 194 of 960 of Needful Things
“This idea that I owe more grief is still there part of the time, I can't deny that, but to my credit I know that it's nuts... because part of me—a lot of me, in fact—is still grieving."
Jan 25, 2026 11:52AM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 105 of 960 of Needful Things
“…Norris just had that kind of a stomach. Sheila Brigham liked to tease him by saying he was like Deputy Andy on that TV show Twin Peaks, but Norris knew he wasn't. Deputy Andy cried when he saw dead people. Norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them,…” My worlds collide! 🤩🪵
Jan 23, 2026 02:38AM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 103 of 960 of Needful Things
“…but she felt in her heart (that secret repository where needs and fears elbowed each other continuously like uncomfortable passengers in a crowded subway car) that, while she might come here again, the lampshade was the only thing she would ever buy in Needful Things.
Jan 22, 2026 01:26PM Add a comment
Needful Things

Oma
Oma is on page 296 of 432 of Moonbound
"You are blurred," she said. "Why? Is this an affliction?"
Laurentide's lifted brow was a puff of steam from a kettle.
"Is this your first encounter with the college? Consider that it might be you who are afflicted. You do look rather... flat. Don't frown. I remember how the scholars appeared when I arrived; I know you can't see my colleagues as I do. But, be sure of it: the defect is yours." She smiled pleasantly.
Jan 14, 2026 06:42PM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 232 of 432 of Moonbound
“In the movies, the sky was blue. Do you watch movies? Don’t worry, I have them all on the ship. Every movie ever made. The blue vibrated in me. It recruited me…” swear to g, this book is perfect.
Jan 09, 2026 04:54AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 172 of 432 of Moonbound
“The Rule of the Dragons: do what thou wilt, as long as it does not radiate.”
Jan 06, 2026 09:11AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 162 of 432 of Moonbound
“Several doors down from the café was the bookstore established by my subject Kate Belcalis. It was a narrow space, and tall; inside, ladders clung to the shelves. In the window, a neon sign glowed, showing two hands open like a book.” The Penumbraverse is realll 😭🫶
Jan 05, 2026 07:45AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 156 of 432 of Moonbound
“I am greedy for change, and I bear it well; this is my temperament. Yet, in that moment, the loss felt unbearable. How could there be any history at all; how could humans, in any form, go on; without any birds in the sky?” 😭💗
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Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 156 of 432 of Moonbound
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Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 119 of 432 of Moonbound
“The boy was fascinated by the robot's plural awareness. The fact that Clovis was in many places at once seemed like a magic trick. In fact, it had not been uncommon among the Anth... but they had never managed the trick so gracefully.”
Dec 28, 2025 11:37AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 100 of 432 of Moonbound
“Another espresso for the master mathematician! The portafilter clacked; the steam nozzle whooshed. Had the Anth, in all their art and craft, built anything better than the espresso machine? Possibly they had not.” I’m loving this world so much.
Dec 25, 2025 08:45AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is on page 19 of 432 of Moonbound
“I could not work this place out. I could not even form a theory. It was a mash-up, a pile-up, not so much anachronistic as everything all at once. Of course, the Anth had always lived like this. Encrypted phones alongside incense sticks, coruscating networks alongside printed books. Nothing was ever erased.
Even so: a castle?
I was all questions: when, and where, and why.” This is frickin fantastic!!
Dec 12, 2025 07:17AM Add a comment
Moonbound

Oma
Oma is finished with The Eyes of the Dragon
"I think that, sooner or later, things like you always begin to repeat themselves, because things like you know only a very few simple tricks. After a while, someone always sees through them. I think that is all that saves us, ever."
Dec 09, 2025 06:08PM Add a comment
The Eyes of the Dragon

Oma
Oma is on page 226 of 372 of The Eyes of the Dragon
“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.” ❤️‍🩹 I miss my best friend.
Dec 06, 2025 06:53AM Add a comment
The Eyes of the Dragon

Oma
Oma is on page 94 of 372 of The Eyes of the Dragon
Who’s narrating?! It’s an entertaining voice.
Nov 30, 2025 01:33PM Add a comment
The Eyes of the Dragon

Oma
Oma is starting The Eyes of the Dragon
“Flagg was a sickness, a fever looking for a cool brow to heat up. He hooded his actions just as he hooded his face. And when the great trouble came-as it always did after a span of years—Flagg always disappeared like shadows at dawn.
Later, when the carnage was over and the fever had passed, when the rebuilding was complete and there was again something worth destroying, Flagg would appear once more.”
Nov 29, 2025 05:44AM Add a comment
The Eyes of the Dragon

Oma
Oma is on page 248 of 288 of Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)
“I will grant her desire, for I owe the seed of Shieldheart a death.” 💀

Oh, Glorian!
Nov 23, 2025 12:31PM Add a comment
Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)

Oma
Oma is on page 122 of 288 of Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)
"A few years ago, an ancient compass came into my keeping. At some point in time, its needle had rusted in place, she said. 'I was like that compass when you found me. I had finally established a safe place, a home, in Perunta. But the longer you remain still, the more rust starts to cover you, and underneath, you become fragile. And soon it hurts to move at all.”
Nov 19, 2025 12:18PM Add a comment
Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)

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