“[The Sorting Hat] only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, because I asked not to go in Slytherin...." "Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Book Review: The Starless Sea
“Change is what a story is, Ezra,” Mirabel says. “I thought I already told you that.” – The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern - As an avid reader and writer, and someone obsessed with stories and characters in general, I’m always taken aback when someone asks me what my favorite book is and I’m not exactly… Continue reading Book Review: The Starless Sea
Featured Quote, The Remains of the Day
"It is now some twenty minutes since the man left, but I have remained here on this bench to await the event that has just taken place - namely, the switching on the pier lights. As I say, the happiness with which the pleasure-seekers gathering on this pier greeted this small event would tend to… Continue reading Featured Quote, The Remains of the Day
Featured Quote, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: Never Let Me Go
“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.” - Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go - I’ve often fallen in… Continue reading Book Review: Never Let Me Go
Sincerely, a bookworm. 