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""among them Thetis led out the threnody"
Whoa guys I think Homer just made a cosmere reference" — Nov 01, 2025 08:14PM
""among them Thetis led out the threnody"
Whoa guys I think Homer just made a cosmere reference" — Nov 01, 2025 08:14PM
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Reading for the 5th time
read in November 2016
Maya Joelle said:
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Much the same thoughts as previous times. I really love certain parts; there's a sense of sheer wonder at the loveliness of the world and of concrete moments and places, despite evil and sorrow, that will forever enchant me. The tone of the story isn
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“As the sun brightened above the eastern mists, the tiny wheeling flecks in the air that Arren watched seemed to sparkle, like gold-dust shaken in water, or dust-motes in a sunbeam. And then Arren realized that they were dragons. As Lookfar approached the islands, Arren saw the dragons soaring and circling on the morning wind, and his heart leapt up with them with a joy, a joy of fulfillment, that was like pain. All the glory of mortality was in that flight. Their beauty was made up of terrible strength, utter wildness, and the grace of reason. For these were thinking creatures, with speech and ancient wisdom: in the patterns of their flight there was a fierce, willed concord. Arren did not speak, but he thought: I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“God?" said Kate, revolted. "You don't look like any god to me, Christopher Heron! You look like a piece of gilded gingerbread, that's what you look like, one of those cakes they sell at a fair!”
― The Perilous Gard
― The Perilous Gard
“This is the life I’ve made for myself, and I want it in a way I haven’t wanted anything else I can remember. It is a wanting that is quiet, and steady, and deep as the beat of my heart.”
― Thorn
― Thorn
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