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"This is definitely a book that I can see some calling slow and boring. But the posh clapbacks between the staff are sending me." — Aug 25, 2025 03:01PM
"This is definitely a book that I can see some calling slow and boring. But the posh clapbacks between the staff are sending me." — Aug 25, 2025 03:01PM
But worse were the dreams of a pale prince who pressed his lips to her neck, who placed his hands on the collar that circled her throat and called forth her power in a blaze of bright sunlight.
“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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