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A Splendid Ruin
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Inamorata
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An Inconvenient Wife
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2004
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Bone River
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2012
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The Spiritualist
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The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story
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City of Ash
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Susannah Morrow
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The Shadows (The Fianna Trilogy, #1)
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The Portrait
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I truly admire historical fiction that is so eloquently written about the past that it speaks equally to the present, and The Four Winds is such a book. Kristin Hannah is an unparalleled storyteller with a talent for emotionally immersive, beautifull ...more | |
“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― The Spiritualist
― The Spiritualist
“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”
― The Spiritualist
― The Spiritualist
“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?"
"Why brown, of course."
"But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?"
"That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"
He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?"
"We're both right."
"Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.”
― The Spiritualist
"Why brown, of course."
"But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?"
"That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"
He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?"
"We're both right."
"Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.”
― The Spiritualist
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
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“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― The Braindead Megaphone
― The Braindead Megaphone
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