A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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Read between February 23 - February 28, 2018
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Meg cried, “Father, we know something’s happened. You have to tell us—please.”
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Meg hasn't changed.
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“Why you?”
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This family. The arrogance in the belief that they alone need to save the world. Hey Murrys, you're not that important.
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“I am not real. And yet in a sense I am that which is the only reality.”
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Here we go...
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“What is real?”
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Every book questions reality.
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“You know Where we are,
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You could just say, are we in the past or future?
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“I’m never entirely sure about Projections,” Gaudior admitted.
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These line in Madelin's books make me think she doesnt even understand what she's saying.
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The unicorn replied unhelpfully, “It’s all very complicated.”
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That's because, Maddy, you dont even know what you're talking about.
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“Unicorns find it embarrassing to be thanked. Please desist.”
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Good to know.
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“You’d better hold your tongue, or I could tell things about you to make Pastor Mortmain condemn you as a witch, too.”
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“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man’s heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
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This is good.
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“You human beings tend to want good things to last forever. They don’t. Not while we’re in time.
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“The names. Bran. Zillah. Zillie. Put them together and they aren’t far from Branzillo.” Mrs. Murry looked at her with surprised admiration. “How amazing!”
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They're smarter than this, right?
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“Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated.”
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Wise words.
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Duthbert Mortmain did not show his vicious temper until the following spring. There was never a sign of it in the store, even with the most difficult customers or salesmen, but upstairs he began to let it have its way. One morning his wife (“I hate it when people call her Mrs. Mortmain!” Beezie exploded) came to breakfast with a black eye, explaining that she had bumped into a door in the dark. The grandmother, Beezie, and Chuck looked at her, but said nothing.
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Taking on spousal abuse.
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slough of despond?”
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The Pilgrim's Progress