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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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“And for all this, nature is never spent; / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
― Poems and Prose
― Poems and Prose
“We all forget from time to time, and so we need one another to tell us our stories. Sometimes a story is the only way back from the darkness.”
― The Warden and the Wolf King
― The Warden and the Wolf King
“I had always thought of joy as a shouting, flamboyant thing, that tossed breath into the sky like a ball. Instead it robbed me of my speech and my air. I was pinned in place by joy and I didn't know what to do.
"Come here," he said, and pulled me into his arms.
I pressed my face against his neck. My body sparked, and I couldn't move, except to lean into him. I was filled with happiness, so enormous and terrifying it was as if I'd committed a crime to get it. No one had given me permission to feel this way, and I thought I might not be allowed it. He combed his fingers though my hair and I was frightened with happiness, harrowed by it. There was no way that anyone could feel this much without also knowing they were going to lose it.”
― The Ministry of Time
"Come here," he said, and pulled me into his arms.
I pressed my face against his neck. My body sparked, and I couldn't move, except to lean into him. I was filled with happiness, so enormous and terrifying it was as if I'd committed a crime to get it. No one had given me permission to feel this way, and I thought I might not be allowed it. He combed his fingers though my hair and I was frightened with happiness, harrowed by it. There was no way that anyone could feel this much without also knowing they were going to lose it.”
― The Ministry of Time
“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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