The smallfolk say it was King Renly’s ghost, but wiser men know better.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. But they’re never going to. And even though you know they’re never going to, you still hope they will.
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She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.
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The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you - just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.
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And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.
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If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.
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There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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In this way, in increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us—not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
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READ THE BOOKS BEFORE THE MOVIE YOU DUMB FUCKS. BOTH ARE FABULOUS. BUT YOU WILL REGRET IT.
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
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I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I’d cry for a week.
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What a dream to have an abandoned library all to yourself for a day. Swoon.
