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“Reading about life was no preparation for living it.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

“It was in nightmares, and crashing pans, and heavy breaths, and dropped pencils, and thunderstorms, and closing doors, and too loud, and too quiet, and alone and not, and the ruffle of pages, and the tapping of keys and every click and every creak. The gun was always there. It lived inside her now.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“His love for me hadn't been motivation enough to reach his full potential. His hatred, though? That made him capable of anything.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“the world pressed shame into women like pillows into their faces.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man