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Quotes from what I’m reading…I find myself collecting my favorite quotes, poems and art for no real reason, so I’m putting them here now.
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“How beautiful, these things you do,
in case they help…”
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley

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December 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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“Winter is an interlude.

Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi

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November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“I like when I evergreen, current and berry…”
-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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“They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”

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November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“O, teach me how I should forget to think!”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

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November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

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November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.”
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”

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October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“She had gotten the better of herself, and asked for none of the things that belonged to this world.”
-The Phantom Carriage, 1921, dir. Victor
Sjöström

#quotes #poetry #cinema #whatimwatching #victorsjöström
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“Sunshine is something
I hear of
on late-night news.
A pathetic mortal vampire
since you revoked
your invitation.”
-S.L. Robinson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #dreamsofdecadence #slrobinson
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“Alas! I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.”
-Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

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October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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“I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.”
-Ha Jin

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October 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“…brushing
everything as she passes
with her slow hands
and soft lips —“
-Mary Oliver

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October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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“The stars are far brighter
Than gems without measure,
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure;
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the gloaming
Than gold won by mining,
So why go a-roaming?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tolkien
September 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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“I cannot see her tonight.
I have to give her up.
So I will eat fugu.”
-Yosa Buson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #haiku
#booksky #whatimreading #buson
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“ ‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got…”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

#quotes #tolkien #thehobbit #lotr #booksky #whatimreading
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“We lived at the end of an empire.”
-Jim Moore

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September 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.”
-Jennifer Michael Hecht

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September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM