“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”
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“Poor Anthony, a kid crushed under longing he didn’t know what to do with, in the claustrophobia of those times and this village, of the church and his parents’ home, suffering from the loss of the first boy he’d ever loved. No wonder he sought every escape he could; no wonder he turned his desire from gold into straw, transformed it into an open-mawed chemical hunger that devoured them all.”
― The Five Wounds
― The Five Wounds
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