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Half City (Harker Academy, #1)

by Kate Golden (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 13, 2026 10:26PM

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If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

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I seemed doomed to always play supporting roles in someone else’s story. Far too many times I had asked myself whether art was imitating life or if it was the other way around.

“This is how I lived back then - through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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“There’s a special kind of magic on nights like this, a certain sort of nostalgia when the past intermingles with the present and flirts with the future.”
― B.K. Borison, Lovelight Farms

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“savor language and words because no matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas have the power to change the world.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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