"I’m wondering if chaos is less a consequence of actions that sends a life careening off any discernible path and more a curse afforded to the unlucky at birth. And I am very, very unlucky. Or just a dickhead." - The Hermetic Library Blog

I’m wondering if chaos is less a consequence of actions that sends a life careening off any discernible path and more a curse afforded to the unlucky at birth. And I am very, very unlucky. Or just a dickhead. Mazey Eddings, Late Bloomer: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “The initiate […]

"It’s as though some deep malevolence was lurking under the surface like mushroom spores, and a heavy rain brought them all bursting forth at once." - The Hermetic Library Blog

It’s as though some deep malevolence was lurking under the surface like mushroom spores, and a heavy rain brought them all bursting forth at once. Lindsay King-Miller, The Z Word [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm (nar. Mara Wilson), Publisher, Local Library] No related posts.

"You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature." - The Hermetic Library Blog

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word […]

"Stop trying to pick a fight with me. Work on yourself if you’re jealous." - The Hermetic Library Blog

Stop trying to pick a fight with me. Work on yourself if you’re jealous. Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit.” “These are the things that life is all about. These moments. It’s […]

"What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit." - The Hermetic Library Blog

What a wonderful thing, to know a sure cure for giving too much of a shit. Emma Mieko Candon, The Archive Undying [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “The Forest comes to us in dreams, in whispers. The Forest is in us.” “The membranes that separate us from insanity, from the fall, the […]

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