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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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When Memory Lies by Mereda Hart Farynyk
“And you think that helping them lie to themselves about their pasts is beneficial to their well-being?”

“In some cases, yes,” she answered easily. “As I’ve said, people lie to themselves all the time without any of our help. Don’t many of us wish to escape our pasts?”

“Undoubtedly,” he agreed, “but it doesn’t follow that we <i>can</i>. The past is still there, whether we remember it or not.”
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When Memory Lies by Mereda Hart Farynyk
“And you think that helping them lie to themselves about their pasts is beneficial to their well-being?”

“In some cases, yes,” she answered easily. “As I’ve said, people lie to themselves all the time without any of our help. Don’t many of us wish to escape our pasts?”

“Undoubtedly,” he agreed, “but it doesn’t follow that we can. The past is still there, whether we remember it or not.”
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Mereda Hart Farynyk added a status update: A bit of a change of speed today with my First Page Read.

A reel of me reading the first page of my slightly sci-fi mystery novel, When Memory Lies is now up on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube!
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I just really enjoy these books. I love the narration style and little quips and insights and witticisms and characters. They're well paced and effortlessly enjoyable. ...more
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Mereda Hart Farynyk added a status update: Me reading the start of chapter 1 of my fairy tale The Light Beyond the Sky is now up on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube🌲🪾✨ The protagonist of this book, Maila, is one of my favorites of my leading ladies 💜

I didn’t stick strictly to the first page for this book because the formatting is such that the actual first page is quite short 🙃

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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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