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"And sometime when the heart is dry and feeleth not, or else by temptation of our enemy,—then it is driven by reason and by grace to cry upon our Lord with voice, rehearing His blessed Passion and His great Goodness, and the virtue of our Lord's word turneth into the soul, and quickeneth the heart and entereth it by His grace into true working, and maketh it pray right blissfully."

if you’re not reading St Athanasius while watching the snow fall outside is it even Christmas Eve

the way reading about these parties gives me second hand anxiety

girl why you making these choices

"In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind."

Noted.

so is Cormac McCarthy allergic to quotation marks?

this is giving Italian Les Mis and I’m definitely digging it so far

obligatory spooky season read🕸️

currently seized with an irrational compulsion to visit Barcelona so I can walk through old neighborhoods and explore used book shops

this is fantastically unhinged

"There’s something hypnotic about the word ‘tea’. I’m asking you...to tell me your adventures and hear mine...and I speak as though the pre-eminent object of all desire were a pot of boiled water and a plateful of synthetic pastries in Ye Olde Worlde Tudor Tea Shoppe."

"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the vast continuity of ducks."

it's exciting to be a teacher and dip into middle school fiction again

captivated by this book despite the fact that nothing has really happened

“It occurred to me that I don’t have to feel it to believe it. And then this opened up the Scriptures in a whole new way.”

fun fact: If it looks like I am reading a lot of books on a specific subject or from a specific period, it is probably because I am taking a class on said subject or period and not because I am an obsessive person. I think.