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Lily M ❀ is Currently Reading

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Grape Juice: An 831 Stories Romance

by Eliza Dumais

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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

by Maryse Condé

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Lily M ❀ said: " I wanted to like this book, but it just didn't work for me. The pacing and flow was off, and I didn't enjoy the lack of subtlety. ...more "

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"It's about the same as I remember so far" — Jan 14, 2026 06:10AM

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Lily M ❀’s Notes & Highlights

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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“The world’s not a good place for a child.” She frowns. “That’s not true. Look around.” I do. And wonder what she can see that I can’t. What I can see is an ocean rising so swiftly that this extraordinary island, this home, will be gone in ...more

A Room With A View

by E.M. Forster

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Lily M ❀’s Quotes

“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

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“Question: If an Egyptian cannot speak English, who is telling his story?”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

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“Although the tide pools had not shown me my face, I had been revealed. I was a treacherous, wrathful, wanting thing, just like he was. Just as he had always wanted me.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“The only reason anything matters is because it ends,' he says. 'I wouldn't hold you so tightly now if I thought we could be here forever.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

tags: a-study-in-drowning, ava-reid, ending, mattering, matters, permanence, preston, preston-heloury

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“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

tags: existential, grief, loss, love, suffering

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