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We carry the people we love around with us; they are part of us, and when we lose them or those relationships go awry, the feeling is so visceral that it’s almost as if there is a physical hole where that person used to be.
“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
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“I’m not his man, Father. I’m Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don’t marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.”
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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“Forever is composed of nows.”
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“Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.”
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
― No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
The Reading Squad.
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Book 1 - The Long Price Quartet Vol. 1-2 - A Shadow in Summer.
The Super Mysterious Book Club
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— last activity Aug 04, 2013 06:46PM
I mysteriously could not think of a better name, just be glad we're not dubbed 'Triscuits and Bile'. Prepare to read everything. ...more
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