I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.
Just finished reading ‘Pure’ by Andrew Miller. It is a dark and very bleak book.
Despite the action in the book the story often feels ponderous and claustrophobic, but both in a good way. The characters may be vivid and colorful, but the atmosphere of Pure is heavy with anticipation and dread, is often simply creepy. The writing flawless and beautiful. It’s a book one could read for the prose alone.
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own
Making of The Game of Thrones
It is so much work to film a movie, a series, and especially this series.
George R. R. Martin created this world, and these people are doing such a great job to make it as real as possible.
Sometimes I really wish to work on a set like this just to be part of it.
At the first of January I started watching the HBO series A Game of Thrones. I immediately fell in love with the story and these great, powerful characters.
Unfortunately it is quite a long time until April when the second season starts, so reading the books seemed like a pretty good idea to spend my free time.
Well, I have read all of them now and highly recommend them to all people who have not read them, especially those who have watched the first season already. Hopefully time will pass quickly because can not wait until March, when finally the paperback of the 5th book A Dance with Dragons will be out. Although I heard from many people who already bought the Hardback version that it is not good, just a filler with lots of boring Character development, I am very excited to finally get it. I’m sure it is just as great, and I can not wait to see how this amazing story goes on.
Victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts. When you play the game of thrones, you live or you die.
All kneel for Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles and Mother of Dragons.
Maybe you figure men like me, men who play in a World Series, can never sink as low as suicide because they always have, at the very last, that “dream came true” thing.
But you’d be wrong.
All that happens when your dream comes true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn’t what you thought.
And it won’t save you.
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| — | Mitch Albom, For One More Day |
If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
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| — | Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray |
