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Mereda Hart Farynyk

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Mereda Hart Farynyk has always been captivated by fairy tales and far off places. From the earliest age, she would wander the forest, looking at the light filtering through the branches, and dream up endless fantasies of fairies and princes and great evils being overcome. She would drink up the study of ancient civilizations and marvel at how mysterious and foreign they were. Growing up in theatre and dance, she immersed herself in countless lives and emotions and perspectives, and what started out as a simple fascination with the magic and mystery of other worlds soon became a deep love of how those other worlds could help us to better understand the richest truths of this one.

Spanning a variety of genres, her books explore questions of s
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Mereda Hart Farynyk added a status update: Me reading the prologue to my fairy tale The Light Beyond the Sky🌲🪾💫 is now up on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube!

I think of this book as my second favorite of my novels. I’m not 100% sure that’s true (the Firedark books hold such a special place for me). But when I think of my favorites of my books, my knee-jerk response is, ‘We Were Gods’ then ‘The Light Beyond the Sky’💜
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Mereda Hart Farynyk added a status update: A reel of me reading the first page of my historically inspired love story Looking for Atlantis is now up on my Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube!🙃

This book is just so cozy and happy and charming 🥹🥰🙃
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" Lol! I just saw that this says "The King's Bridge".... 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ The King's BRIIIIDE. Bride. lol. Not bridge. ...more "
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“I have learned that there is little use or value in a life that is ruled by fear.”
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“He shook his head. “We’re always in danger, Miss Blillick. We’ve chosen it—to live our lives in constant decision that the things we stand for are worth it. Who we are is dangerous.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, HYACINTH: the average girl

“I felt as though I had been offered a whole new world, and at the center of it was, and always must be, him.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“There was something about Gabrel’s smile… something different, something fascinating. It was not mere sunshine like Tana’s sweet smile, nor was it mead like Drex’s—honeyed but also biting. There was something about it that always made Kalla think of a sun-shower—pure and full of hope but also sad, just like the suns shining through the rain. And Kalla had always loved the rain.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Firedark

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
Lloyd Alexander

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo

“Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.”
Robin McKinley, Chalice

“It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.”
Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

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