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Written on the Dark

by Guy Gavriel Kay (Goodreads Author)

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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

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The Only Light Left Burning (All That's Left in the World, #2)

by Erik J. Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Jaya’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for This Is How You Lose the Time War

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

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My isolation, my experiment, had caused a small

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2)

by Maggie Stiefvater

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Jaya’s Quotes

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“Depending on where you began the story, it was about Noah Czerny.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

tags: maggie-stiefvater, noah-czerny, the-raven-cycle, the-raven-king

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