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I've been getting my queer on outside of GR, but in the last few days of Pride, I might as well get it on here with one of the masters.

Advice for wives circa 1896: The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject. Besides the false views of human nature it will impart...it produces an indifference to the performance of domestic duties, and contempt for ordinary realities.

One day perhaps, we'll understand: It is true, I am less afraid to die now.

Lots of interesting thoughts that I certainly didn't expect to get out of this, especially the ones on settler state horror. I'll have to keep an eye out for other Oz works in the future.

"Don't you think everyone has troubles?"
"A lot of people have a million dollars."

...[S]he had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people—...in the deep past, by the same means, her own father.

...I was getting out of the notion of subjecting myself to the liability of being locked up by every local magistrate within whose jurisdiction I happened to find myself, simply because I did not elect to dress according to his notions of propriety.

The Kings of Egypt were dark; all the world was dark until a very little while ago. Then the white man came from some little crack in the earth. He does not know about the times before he came. That is how we feel, sah; he is an accident.

People like you ask me lots of technical questions but I'm rarely asked how many lives it has cost.

People trimming their TBRs down to size while I'm over here freaking out that I'm reading my works in translation faster than I can procure them.

I had learned much
concerning some of the very weak points of human nature...great names are not always worthily borne by great men, and that a
spirit of petty jealousy is even more prevalent in a camp than it is in a girl’s
boarding-school.

As you are all aware, our nation has no conscription system.

But suppose someone says to us, "Well, you're here now: what's our own Moby Dick? What's the book that, a hundred years from now, everybody will look down on us for not having liked?" What do we say then?

I'm reading this piecemeal through an online academic depository, which necessitates me publishing wordless status updates in order to keep track of where I am. An odd throwback to my early GR days.

You could hear the soft weeping of women who would face the Judgment Bar of Heaven with their men's unknown sins more willingly than they would face the knowledge here on earth of what those sins might be.

My first eBook in almost a decade, and a 600+ pager at that. Hopefully the material is juicy enough to keep me going.

Goodreads stop putting most of my dash content in the app Challenge.

Poor old harmless Carl, she tried to say, as she had said and heard others say a thousand times; but she knew suddenly that the devil as well as God uses fools.

Getting severe 'The Snow Child' vibes from this one, what with the whole YA book masquerading as non-YA commonality. Yeah, some of the themes are brutal, but it still reads like a book report.

It is not the first time that a woman has been called unwomanly for saying the truth[.]

Interview done. We'll see how it goes.

Yorke was receiving that enlargement and enlightenment of the imagination which it is the privilege of endurance alone, of all forms of human assimilation, to bestow upon us. Experience may almost be called a faculty of the soul.

...I'd decided that I'd rather die somewhere else, of some proper disease that I could account for.