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again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in the dark. The boat was a needle, threading the glowing pearls of an enormous necklace. Did the
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“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Alongside the favored palazzos lurked their dark, ignored sisters, the city’s abandoned children, tilting into muddy solitude from which they could never be extracted.”
― Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
― Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
“Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.
location 3234”
― The Word Exchange
location 3234”
― The Word Exchange
“Have you forgotten what we are to say to ourselves every morning? 'Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not...”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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