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"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen." - Abigail Adams
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winsome-words · 3 months ago
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“I was fishing for information that might break my heart, a flaw of the human condition.”
– Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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winsome-words · 4 months ago
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“I shiver, horrified at the margins between life and death.”
– Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home? This lost, I decide. Precisely this lost.”
– Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“It only takes a few minutes for Emory, Clara, and Seth to walk through the carnivorous flowers, but they would swear civilizations rise and fall while they’re doing it.”
– Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“Anybody whose hands occasionally catch fire should probably think about cutting them off.”
– Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“There are moments in history when entire empires, whole branches of the future rest precariously on the words of a single person. Usually, they’re not even aware of it. They don’t have time to plan or consider. They simply open their mouths and speak, and the universe takes on a new pattern. Emory is now one of those people.”
– Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“I should try to comfort him, but there’s no optimal way of handling extreme emotions in humans, which I’ve come to regard as the greatest of evolution’s failures.”
– Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“…[A]nswers are elusive, and asking for two at a time feels greedy.”
– Stuart Turton, The Last Murder at the End of the World
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“People drowned standing up.”
– Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“Thing about grief is that every death makes the pile lighter…One death is heavier than ten, and a hundred are weightless.”
– Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“Why would concern want to travel alone?”
– Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water
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winsome-words · 5 months ago
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“…laughter is evil in origin – as it requires an object of ridicule, a butt, a fool. A bully is never the butt of his own jokes, is he?”
– Alex Michaelides, The Fury
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winsome-words · 7 months ago
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“It only gets weirder, I’m afraid.”
– Alex Michaelides, The Fury
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winsome-words · 7 months ago
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“The curtain rises. And so it begins.”
– Alex Michaelides, The Fury
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winsome-words · 7 months ago
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“Our motivation is always pain.”
– Alex Michaelides, The Fury
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winsome-words · 7 months ago
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“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
– Alex Michaelides, The Fury
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winsome-words · 10 months ago
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“…is this all a hallucination imagined when the conscious and unconscious minds meet outside the body?”
– Roberto Canessa, I Had to Survive
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