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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Do you believe in dreams, Uncle Simeon? I do; I believe in nothing else. One night I dreamed that invisible enemies had me tied to a dead cypress. Long red arrows were sticking into me from my head to my feet, and the blood was flowing. On my head they had placed a crown of thorns, and intertwined with the thorns were fiery letters which said: "Saint Blasphemer." I am Saint Blasphemer, Rabbi Simeon. So you'd better not ask me anything else, or I'll start my blasphemies. - Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 10 - The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

BOOKS READ IN 2025: THE SWORD OF KAIGEN. “i'm matsuda misaki," she said with pride and honesty she never attached to those words before. "i'm your wife." and she attacked him.

Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.

kate daniels world meme ≡ [1/10] places: alternate universe atlanta in the near future Atlanta was burning. Again. Magic had drained from the world and technology had once again gained the upper hand. People called it the post-Shift resonance. Magic came and went as it pleased, flooding the world like a tsunami, dragging bizarre monsters into our reality, stalling engines, jamming guns, eating tall buildings, and vanishing again without warning. Nobody knew when it would assault us or how long each wave would last. Eventually magic would win this war, but for now technology was putting up a hell of a fight, and we were stuck in the middle of the chaos, struggling to rebuild a half-ruined world according to new rules.

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, Queen Consort of Bayern.