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“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon' in the Euclid" and the word simony' in the Catechism.* But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.”
— Feb 15, 2026 07:12AM
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“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
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“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”
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Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.”
Alanna Thornton
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“My voice had an accent of forced bravery in it and I was ashamed of my paltry stratagem.”
— Feb 15, 2026 07:45AM
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“It was noon when we reached the quays and, as all the labourers seemed to be eating their lunches, we bought two big currant buns and sat down to eat them on some metal piping beside the river. We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce.”
— Feb 15, 2026 07:33AM
Alanna Thornton
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“No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.”
All I can think of is the wake episode in Derry girls lol… James would be horrified
— Feb 15, 2026 07:19AM
All I can think of is the wake episode in Derry girls lol… James would be horrified
