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"Reading a chapter per month like this is proving to be lovely. Like receiving a cozy letter from a friend and settling down to savor its seasonal newsiness." — Feb 01, 2025 04:20PM
"Reading a chapter per month like this is proving to be lovely. Like receiving a cozy letter from a friend and settling down to savor its seasonal newsiness." — Feb 01, 2025 04:20PM
To Ralph the Sienese air was not only breathable but intoxicating. The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. All the values of the temperate landscape were reversed: the noon
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“I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into the bargain which is insufferable.) But a good romantic novel is a heart-warming thing which strikes a responsive chord in those who are happy and offers a certain lifting of the spirits to those who are not.”
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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“I was crying for joy, my Sassenach,' he said softly. He reached out slowly and took my face between his hands. "And thanking God that I have two hands. That I have two hands to hold you with. To serve you with, to love you with. Thanking God that I am a whole man still, because of you.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.”
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“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
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