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Kelly is currently reading

The Dust Never Settles

by Karina Lickorish Quinn

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“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

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“Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

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“I won't love anyone so much more than everything else that I lose it all if that person is lost. If it makes your world smaller, it isn't love.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

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“I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.”
― Joanna Russ, The Female Man

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