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posting quotes! as I read them.
“Dyin’ can ruin a good time.”

📖: James by Percival Everett
July 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“You do not believe that humans are inherently bad?” I asked.

“I do not. If they were, they would kill as soon as they could walk.”

📖: James by Percival Everett
July 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“How kin one person own another person?”
“Dat be a good question, Huck.”

📖: James, Percival Everett
July 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“What you be doin’ on dis ilan? And why you got blood all ova ya?”
“I kilt myself,” the boy said.
I looked him over. “You din’t do a good job.”

📖: James, Percival Everett
July 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“I don’t see no profit in askin’ for stuff just so I don’t get it and learn a lesson ’bout not gettin’ what I asked fer. What kinda sense does that make? Might as well pray to that board there.”

📖: James, Percival Everett
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“It seem sumtimes you jest gotta put up wif your friends. Dey gonna do what dey gonna do.”

📖: James, Percival Everett
July 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“…sometimes her fear is so loud that it’s all she can hear.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“People see what they want to. I’m sick of hoping that they’ll see me.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“I can’t tell what color his eyes are. Blue, maybe. Or green. Something cold. Reptilian.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“I tried to give you back what that monster took. I hope it worked. Because now, as time escapes me, I realize the greatest thing he could have stolen from you was not your innocence, but your hope.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“…there are some things we shouldn’t forget, because if we do, then bad people get away with bad shit. And we keep getting hurt.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Anyway, there are probably other things God gets more upset about than two people kissing,” I say. “Wars. Bombings. Murders.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“I think of the way denial can weave its way through a family, whisper gentle lies, and make itself at home.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
“I don’t believe in people who say they can see the future. Now is now, and the only thing we know is that we don’t know shit”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
“My better sense kicks in. I bottle my rage. Shove it deep in my head. Anger won’t help anything. I don’t even know who I’m mad at.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“She nods, and her shoulders relax. Relief, maybe. She moves away quickly after that. No backward glance. Like she’s worried I’ll change my mind. Like if she stays too long, I’ll say something she doesn’t want to hear.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“We’ve got a thousand fantasy books with gray-eyed heroes. (Which is BS, because who actually has gray eyes, and is also handsome and can also swing a sword? No one.)”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“I’m myself but not myself. Like I’m watching someone else from far away.”

📖: All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir
July 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“Go to bed, you fool,” Calcifer said sleepily. “You’re drunk.”
“Who, me?” said Howl. “I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“Then he stood up. “I feel ill,” he announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“You’re a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You’re victimising us all.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“I can clean the dirt from this place even if I can’t clean you from your wickedness, young man.”
“Howl’s not wicked,” Michael said.
“Yes I am,” Howl contradicted him.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“Howl’s quite heartless, you know.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“But I discovered that people like me – they do, you know, if you like them – and then it was all right.”

📖: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
#booksky
March 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Reposted by Emerald 🍀
something I love about science fiction and fantasy authors is they looked at the world around them and said, so this could definitely be cooler
February 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM