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"Ideality supposes a distinction between actual reality and the way reality appears to us." Kai Alyx Sarus
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200: The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (1898) Quotes
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“No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!”
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199: Middlemarch - George Eliot (1872) Quotes
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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
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198: Paradise Regained - John Milton (1671) Quotes
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“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
“The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.”
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197: Paradise Lost - John Milton (1667) Quotes
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
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195: Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Gaskell (1863) Quotes
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“... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...”
“The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.”
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194: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell (1855) Quotes
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“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
“Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”
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- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
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193: The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (1848) Quotes
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“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!”
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- Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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192: Summer - Edith Wharton (1917) Quotes
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“...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.”
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191: The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (1905) Quotes
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“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”
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“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
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“Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.” ~ Mary Shelley
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For reference, I'm over halfway through The Dark Mirror (book 5) but I like to cross reference quotes and I've been sharing some of them.
In book 4, Paige _finally_ gets a night with Arcturus. Paige is most definitely demisexual and is very emotionally bonded to Arcturus. To be fair, he seems very easy to bond with. He's super considerate, increasingly on top of the consent checks, and has a consistent pattern of thoughtful gestures and acts of care. Of course he's not human either but still humanoid.
I read many books. I like a lot of different types of descriptions. I like the descriptions in Samantha's writing. So here are some snippets.
> I touched my lips to his
> It was hardly a kiss. Just a whisper of my mouth on his, a give and take of breath. Tilting back, I idled my fingertips along his jaw, then his lower lip – full and smooth, curved like the limb of a bow. Calling my courage, I stroked the tip of my tongue across that lip before I drew it into my mouth.
Naturally I'm not going to paste the whole chapter. You gotta read that yourselves. :neobot_blep:
> When he cupped it, a fractured sound came, unwilled, from my lips
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> His gaze moved down my body. I held still. A human might have whispered in my ear, told me I was beautiful or perfect, but not him. For a long time, all he did was look, opaque, eyes on fire. When I was sure the silence would last for ever, when the tension of waiting would snap me in two, he drew me against him, into the moonlight. It illuminated my hair, transfigured it to flame, and ousted the few shadows that had draped me.
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Did I mention Arcturus is a musician? He plays the organ :bunhdowo:
> His kiss made the skin of my abdomen shiver. His hands cradled the backs of my knees.
> ‘This,’ he said, ‘is an overture.’
> His voice was little more than a tremor in his throat. I felt it everywhere.
> ‘Learning a duet entails time. And patience. Calls for us to move as one.’ He found a sensitive place at the back of my thigh, and I breathed his name. ‘I want you to show me where to touch you. I want to know’ – he rolled a thumb over the wing of my hipbone – ‘how to make your body sing.’
:neofox_book: :neobot_floof_owo:
> Small, instinctive sounds passed my lips as he carried me to the edge of a precipice. I cleaved to him, afraid to let go, every limb fighting the call to surrender. Surrender had no place in war.
> But this was no war. Not here, in this room.
> He never rushed. As my hips surged and my hand twisted into the sheets, I thought of the bird in the music box, and the golden key that wound it. He coaxed me closer and closer to the brink, and there he held me until the bird came to life and took wing.
Sometimes reading examples helps break my writers block. Hasn't worked yet, but I'll keep trying. Maybe I need to take a quick detour to some of my favorite descriptions in Metal from Heaven or the Angels Trilogy. Or one of the many many other books I've read. However if y'all have more suggestions, I'll add them to my big list o books to read.
From "The Mask Falling" by #SamanthaShannon
This is a few books after this quote about a kiss by the same character https://lgbtqia.space/@h3mmy/115319797221154226
> Muscular arms wrapped around me. Strong hands roved over my hips, my back, up to my waist, gathering me against a hard chest. A tongue roamed in my mouth, tasting of mint. A white wind of panic blasted through my mind. What the ever-loving fuck was happening?
Snippet from Samantha Shannon's "The Mask Falling" wherein a child is discovering that a clairvoyant is just a person, and not a monster like the child has been told.
> 'I like your hair,’ she ventured. ‘It’s not like monster hair.’
> ‘How do you know about monsters?’ I asked her. My grandfather had thrilled me with tales of headless riders and children transformed into swans when I was little, but they told far duller stories here.
> ‘It’s a secret,’ Mylène informed me.
> ‘I should think so.’ I sat back. ‘Go on, then. What kind of hair do monsters have?’
> ‘Green?’
From Samantha Shannon's "The Mask Falling" (Bone Season Book 4)
> ‘The fireplace is false,’ I said. Warden glanced at it. ‘Yes.’
> ‘But how are you—’ A wild laugh was bubbling up. ‘How are you going to cope?’
> ‘Cope,’ he echoed.
> ‘You need a fire. To stare into, pensively. Did you know,’ I said to him, ‘that you do that a lot?’
190: The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920) Quotes
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“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
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189: The Machine Stops - EM Forster (1909) Quotes
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“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”
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188: A Room with a View - EM Forster (1908) Quotes
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
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5 Evocative Quotes From Nobel Prize In Literature Laureate László Krasznahorkai’s Novel The Melancholy Of Resistance
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