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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Golden Ass: Or, A Book of Changes (Hackett Classics)

by Apuleius

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Beowulf

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Joyland by Stephen King

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I’ve done a lot of jobs in the years since then, and my current editorial gig—probably my last gig before retirement seizes me in its claws—is terrific, but I never felt so weirdly happy, so absolutely in-the-right-place, as I did when I ...more

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peyton!!’s Quotes

“You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: harry, lord-henry-wotton, love

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“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be a torment. And yet—” He broke off, drew breath. “Yet what else to call it, this terror and this joy?”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

tags: immortality, joy, love, passion

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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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“I’m always amazed at how books find us at the time we need them, as if there’s some omniscient, benevolent librarian in the sky.”
― Eve Babitz, Black Swans

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