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"I'm about thiiiis close to DNF'ing this word salad. Why just say what's going on when you can doily it up with 300 awkward metaphors per page? "Her thoughts were heavy like river stones," as in, how are river stones specifically more heavy than any other type of rock?? And also, because it's happened twice in this one chapter, heads up for the author: regardless of superpowers, YOU CAN'T HEAR OWLS FLY!!" — 14 jan. 2026 17:01
"I'm about thiiiis close to DNF'ing this word salad. Why just say what's going on when you can doily it up with 300 awkward metaphors per page? "Her thoughts were heavy like river stones," as in, how are river stones specifically more heavy than any other type of rock?? And also, because it's happened twice in this one chapter, heads up for the author: regardless of superpowers, YOU CAN'T HEAR OWLS FLY!!" — 14 jan. 2026 17:01
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“It's remarkable how quickly a person can get used to an impossible situation. How terror and panic can start to feel familiar, even ordinary.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“at some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“But the moony expression on Roman's face, his voice, had hit the darkest spot of Yale's humor. How beautiful, the doomed love! How gorgeous and ambient, the ways we abandon each other! The lovely wars we die in, the poetry of disease!”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“Back in that first lesson with Clive, I was told by my professor that 'If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
― Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
― Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
“Science, I truly believe, is humanity's only hope, and it is in science, today and always, that I will put my trust.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
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