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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
— Sep 27, 2017 10:48AM
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it's been five years since my last re-read, it's the end of summer, there's a mini series coming in october - of course i am reading this again.
— Sep 27, 2026 10:03AM
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"I have to," said Lee. "If it kills him I have to. I have the choice," and he smiled sadly and quoted, "'If there's blame, it's my blame.'"
— Aug 13, 2021 10:23AM
Emma
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Dessie thought miserably, If his is real, why can't my heart be light? Why can't I climb out of my gray ragbag? I will, she screeched inside herself. If he can - I will.
— Aug 02, 2021 09:48AM
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Love to a man like Mr. Edwards is a crippling emotion. It ruined his judgment, canceled his knowledge, weakened him... A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
— Jul 24, 2021 10:09AM
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"There's a capacity for appetite," Samuel said, "that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy."
— Sep 15, 2017 10:58AM