Her: What you wanna go to this bookstore (that's 54 minutes away) for? Me: Whimsy Her: Ok 😊

What if Calidus himself is the Black Sun...

Thought about participating in the new "Books that exceeded my expectations trend". But, unfortunately, I generally expect to not like most books I read.

“Just this once,” said Valentine, “why don’t you set the bird free instead of holding it in the cage until it dies?” -Children of The Mind

"Miro wanted to reassure her. But how do you reassure someone, except by recalling to them similar situations that turned out for the best? There were no similar situations to call upon." -Orson Scott Card, Children of The Mind

"You know how writers are. Like Hikari, they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.” -Orson Scott Card, Children of The Mind

"“Just this once,” said Valentine, “why don’t you set the bird free instead of holding it in the cage until it dies?”" -Orson Scott Card, Children of The Mind

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so." -Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I actually don't know what a reading slump is. #booktwt

Valor is starting to bore me.

""I could all but feel his thoughts, as if they were palpable in the air like smoke. Not read them, you understand, but feel the power of them."' Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire

"‘What can be imagined can be done’" Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire

"“You know how it is,” Samuel said. “When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he’s gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.”" John Steinbeck, East of Eden

""You know, Lee, I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow."" -John Steinbeck, East of Eden

""There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty."" John Steinbeck, East of Eden

East of Eden has me fighting back tears this morning. #booktwt

"“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don’t believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost. That’s a running sore.”" -John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”" John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Shout out to Ursula K. Le Guin for subverting racist norms and not making the darker skinned people the bad guys. #booktwt

"And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do . . .” -Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea