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  1. Public Bookmark 1

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    A pálida luz da lua que entra pela janela serve para eternizar esse momento entre vocês dois como perfeito. (Sem marcações de gênero para o/a/ê Reader)

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    16 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 8

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    Diana Taverner recruits Catherine Standish for some undercover intelligence gathering. What seems like a simple job turns out to have unexpected pitfalls, but also unexpected joys.

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    28 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 5

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    o recém-eleito Papa Vincent Benítez se refugia em uma casa discreta em San Polo, determinado a convencer o cardeal veneziano Goffredo Tedesco a aceitar o cargo de Prefeito do Dicastério para a Doutrina da Fé. a cidade dos canais se torna o palco de um conflito muito mais íntimo do que teológico, e, entre passeios noturnos, vapor de morango e rios banhados pela lua, o leal — e recém-nomeado — Secretário de Estado, Thomas Lawrence, descobre, para seu horror e secreto deleite, que o ciúmes é uma linguagem mais eficaz do que qualquer encíclica; e é nesse compasso que ele começa a perder a clareza do dever, a quietude da devoção, e o silêncio que antes mantinha entre as mãos no altar.

    à medida que os canais iluminados pela lua testemunham caminhadas demais, o trio descobre que a fronteira entre a graça e a carne é mais fina que uma ponte veneziana — às vezes escorregadia pela chuva, às vezes pelo sangue. e naquele vermelho partilhado — pode chamar de rubro, pode chamar de escândalo — talvez vislumbrem a única reforma que importa: aquela que começa debaixo da pele, muito antes de chegar a Roma.

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    22 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 3

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    “I really believe I love him eminence Bellini, this is perhaps one of the few truths I have in my entire life, I have loved him since he imposed himself on me, perhaps even before when I read about his ordination”, Aldo noticed the certainty and sufficiency in the woman's words and the envy because she was convinced in almost everything she did, which perhaps he never was.
    He was about to give a minor penance that he thought was appropriate even if it was not effective for the scourges of love, when Thomas suddenly entered the room, without knocking or calling beforehand, they used to have this freedom in each other's rooms, but this was not the right moment even though it was obvious that the dean had no way of knowing that a moment like that was happening. He dug his nails into his purple stole asking God to take him away.

     

    "Aldo, I forgot my... I forgot my skullcap on your dresser, but I can come back to get it later when you have some... some free time from your chores. Sister Agnes...", he closed the door as quickly as he opened it and a silence spread throughout the entire room.

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    17 May 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 17

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    Cardinal Goffredo Tedesco has, perhaps, gone a little too far in his obsession with the Pope.

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    24 Apr 2025