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[Podfic] A Thread to Follow by Shorts84
Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
15 Nov 2020
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A Thread to Follow: the audiobook
Eight years later.
"To bid goodbye, is to say, ‘I must put you into God’s hands, since I can no longer hold you in mine.’ A goodbye is a capitulation to forces bigger, stronger than ourselves, than our wills, our desires. It is a surrender, of someone dear, to the questionable mercies of the world. One quite literally gives them up.” She sipped at her wine. “Goodbyes are shattering, and devastating, and holy. And life is full of them. Do not try to make them easy. Far better to make them worthwhile."
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25 May 2021
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Far from the Tree by Shorts84
Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
14 Oct 2022
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“Maybe loyalty is a kind of patience. Like hope. A holding pattern for the heart, while we wait for change.”
Marianne needed a change. Teaching in a country prep school for a year, as it turned out, would change pretty much everything.
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25 May 2021
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don't you forget about me by Appleface
Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
01 Jul 2020
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Marianne is seventeen. She’s sent away for a few weeks in the summertime to an isolated island where she will stay with her aunt. And while there, of course, she can’t help but enter a mutual fascination with the angry girl who has always lived by the sea, and yet never learned how to swim.
On the horizon, a summer storm approaches.
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05 Nov 2020
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i've always been in love with you (could you tell it from the moment that i met you?) by Appleface
Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
04 May 2020
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I am looking at the cliffs. Jagged and stony, with a steep drop below. They stand not far in front of me, and beyond that is the sky, torn and blue.
I am overcome. I run.Where was Héloïse's mind during this love story?
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05 Nov 2020
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no hard feelings by Appleface
Fandoms: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
21 Oct 2020
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Héloïse's sister is getting married. All her relatives will be on her back if she shows up single.
So who does she take and pretend to be dating? Her book-loving, intelligent, motorcycle-riding coworker, Marianne.
Which is all well and good.
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05 Nov 2020