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eve pondering not giving adam the fruit after she eats it so that (despite being a woman "created lesser") she could be equal to him at last. or better. ough. girl you shouldve done that

"You want to spare them?" said Gracia, surprised. "Captain, you must have killed a dozen in the palace assault alone."

"I did," Anita said. "Now I'm not killing them anymore. Why should that be strange? It's only common courtesy."

i'm madly in love with her

extremely themed situation going on in my current reads rn

“Cicero, the greatest of Roman killjoys,”

“by late 45, Caesar had moreover taken to parading about in red calf-high boots.” slay

ohhhhhh yeah this is good.

AND A REFERENCE TO THE QUEEN OF BITHYNIA THING. this book was written for me

"People said that Ceiao had grown violent, those next fifteen years, but it showed their ignorance to say it. It had only grown crass." SUUUUUUCH A GOOD LINE FOR A ROME-INSPIRED WORLD

CATILINE CONSPIRACY MENTIONED

cliche as it is. i fear that satan from paradise lost is Just Like Me Fr

JULIUS CAESAR ANALOGUE HAS A HUSBAND?

dude i might have to go to the doctor

okay he did kind of serve with areopagitica. if only it weren’t THIRTY PAGES

have had to pause reading these for schoolwork but i miss him………

"You still promising the Lord you going to do better--and you think whatever you done already, whatever you doing right at that minute, don't count. Of all the men I ever knew, you's the man who ought to be hoping the Bible's all a lie--'cause if that trumpet ever sounds, you going to spend eternity talking."

did people lose their fucking minds in 1953 when this book came out. i wouldve

"Not even tonight, in the heart's nearly impenetrable secret place, where hte truth is hidden and where only the truth can live, could she wish that she had not known him; or deny that, so long as he was there, the rejoicing of Heaven could have meant nothing to her--that, being forced to choose between Richard and God, she could only, even with weeping, have turned away from God."

pooh floating in the dark dot gif

ESTHERRRRRRRRRRR

the way people rave about this book vs. my urge to DNF because it is unbearable about women. maybe i'll just skip ahead and read the caligula parts

MY LIBRARY HOLD CAME IN LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Either he arose from this theater, never to return, putting behind him the world and its pleasures, its honors, and its glories, or he remained here with the wicked and partook of their certain punishment. Yes, it was a narrow way--and John stirred in his seat, not daring to feel it God's injustice that he must make so cruel a choice."

"Cicero--a vain, vacillating, timorous fellow--"

"Their singing caused him to believe in the presence of the Lord; indeed, it was no longer a question of belief, because they made that presence real. He did not feel it himself, the joy they felt, yet he could not doubt that it was, for them, the very bread of life--could not doubt it, that is, until it was too late to doubt."

ok. already feeling real normal about this one