#flouread

You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

04.07.2025

“Is that really true?”

“Have I ever lied to you?”

“Several times.”

Shion Miura, Run with the Wind

05.14.2025

On some cold mornings, when I rose at dawn and in the kitchen went over the lessons, I had the impression that, as usual, I was sacrificing the warm deep sleep of the morning to make a good impression on the daughter of the shoemaker rather than on the teachers in the school for rich people.

Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

10.06.2024

Maybe what really mattered was what was on the inside, as was the case with Big Jim’s refrigerator. Change had overtaken our entire world. And now it was my turn. It was time to be a crow.

Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

08.03.2024

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws.

T. Kingfisher in Thornhedge

01.12.2024

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‘It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander

04.04.2024

“So you will take me to die with you?” he said. He had seen little that made him believe they had any sort of friendship, but this seemed little thanks for it.

RJ Barker, The Bone Ships

01.17.2024

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