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“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.”
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“He was a Lannister of Casterly Rock, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard; no sellsword would make him scream.
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Sunlight ran silver along the edge of the arakh as it came shivering down, almost too fast to see. And Jaime screamed.” — George R.R. Martin |
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“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
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Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods” — George R.R. Martin |
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| If you want to be terrified, read this. I read it during my Year 9 English classes when we were meant to be studying Wall-E and I still remember feeling scared out of my mind in the middle of a brightly lit room full of noisy fourteen year olds. This...more | |
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| Deborah Lipstadt gives a far more interesting account of her infamous libel trial with David Irving than other writers on the subject (Evans, for example, was too dry and impersonal for my tastes.) Lipstadt has an entertaining way of writing that kee...more | |
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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders
― Allen Saunders
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