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"I really hate how every line is “the vampire said” “the boy said” idk it’s really bothering me so I will be going very slowly. I read it back in college tho so I am just going straight to the next to actually read that (I will finish this book it just might take forever)" — Aug 21, 2025 09:35PM
"I really hate how every line is “the vampire said” “the boy said” idk it’s really bothering me so I will be going very slowly. I read it back in college tho so I am just going straight to the next to actually read that (I will finish this book it just might take forever)" — Aug 21, 2025 09:35PM
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"“She liked southern gothic and tried and failed to make me like Faulkner” me? Me? This line is about ME?" — Jul 14, 2025 07:16PM
"“She liked southern gothic and tried and failed to make me like Faulkner” me? Me? This line is about ME?" — Jul 14, 2025 07:16PM


“Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
―

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying

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