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"I’m reading this slower than I thought but I had to stop my reading to document the fact that I’m 16 pages in and there’s already so much lore this is so exciting" — Mar 19, 2025 02:02AM
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"(Putting this book on a pause for now but it’s okay so far lots of world building which is v typical of a Ransom Riggs book but definitely will pick up the book another time!)" — Jan 24, 2025 09:14PM
"(Putting this book on a pause for now but it’s okay so far lots of world building which is v typical of a Ransom Riggs book but definitely will pick up the book another time!)" — Jan 24, 2025 09:14PM


“In Our Woods, Sometimes a Rare Music
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing through.
His voice is deep,
then he lifts it until it seems
to fall from the sky.
I am thrilled.
I am grateful.
Then, by the end of morning,
he's gone, nothing but silence
out of the tree
where he rested for a night.
And this I find acceptable.
Not enough is a poor life.
But too much is, well, too much.
Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.”
― A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan

“You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds."
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”
― Anansi Boys
"What, a phobia?"
"Sort of."
"Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds."
"What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?”
― Anansi Boys
“I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
―
Maybe we’re from the same star.”
―
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