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#3 Our Lady's Child

gurllll all you needed to say was yes, hot damn.

#2 Cat and Mouse in Partnership

See, this is why Jerry hates Tom. What a slime ball.

1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry

Kudos to the King for teaching his daughter manners and principles. But man this story was so random lol.

"Talent is more exotic when it's wasted."

hot dannng they really think that 35 years old is "advanced state of life" and "an absolute old bachelor"... and 40 years old is as good as dead 😭

re-reading.

THAT KIND OF HUNGER wasn't IT for me.

"...she turned and walked back down, breasts chugging."

Oookaaaaaayyyy?

"A bouquet fills me with a sort of dread: for it is made of dead flowers, the corpses of roses, verbenas or periwinkles, whose fragrance seems to me to have a whiff of the tomb about it."

"Now all you have to do is decide who you are, then commit. That's all there is to it. Simple, and yet the most profound, and most difficult decision you will ever make."

"I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is. None of us can; it is too varied, too immense; we seek to embrace it with our reason; but we can't do it. You know a world; but it is not THE world; it is the world you have selected from a dozen other worlds for reasons within your self."

Why is Gabrielle so underrated?

186-189: my favorite part, so far. It shows both Oskar and Eli's vulnerabilities and need for companionship, and in a way, intimacy.

Still as technical as Zen, but less charming.

"True luck is to live an undisturbed life and die in your sleep." - The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

"A Man of Letters" by Nobel laureate Francois Mauriac is seriously one of the best short stories I have ever read. How a seemingly simple story could convey the complexities of human emotions amazes me.

"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. Does it matter in the least what estimate men may form of us hereafter? We ourselves are after all our own witnesses, and our own judges."

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

"The rational mind is often irrational."

"And as we gradually give more of ourselves to ourselves, we naturally give more of ourselves to others. There is a way we are with people which makes it easy for them to be themselves. We're not being someone who encourages them to act in any other way. We're an open space, holding to nothing, giving it all away."

"The judging mind has an opinion about everything. It selects from the mindflow who it believes it ought to be and chides the rest. It's full of noise and old learning. It is a quality of mind addicted to maintaining an image of itself. It is always trying to be somebody."