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"After a 2.5 month break from reading I am trying to get back into it… hoping something dense and British and gay can break through…" — Mar 13, 2026 09:43PM
"After a 2.5 month break from reading I am trying to get back into it… hoping something dense and British and gay can break through…" — Mar 13, 2026 09:43PM
“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”
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“I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”
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“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks.
But they should. They should.”
― On Strike Against God
But they should. They should.”
― On Strike Against God
“Ah," Gary said dreamily. " 'Free time.' I've heard about that. Don't fool yourself, Fire-Top. What with extra hours of lessons for punishments, and the extra work you get every day, free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. We all face up to it sooner or later--the only real free time you get here is what my honored sire chooses to give you, when he thinks you have earned it."
"And he doesn't give it to you at night," Alex put in. "He gives it to you when you've been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep--”
― Alanna: The First Adventure
"And he doesn't give it to you at night," Alex put in. "He gives it to you when you've been here awhile, on Market Day and sometimes a morning or afternoon all to yourself. But never at night. At night you study. During the day you study. In your sleep--”
― Alanna: The First Adventure
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