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Bare Bones & Letters to Lovers: poems
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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

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“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: gentleman, honor, killing, magic

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“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

tags: chains, choices

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“In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.”
― Nancy Milford, Zelda

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