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Upon Buried Embers (Upon Buried Embers, #1)

by Kelly Cove (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, captivexcaptor, dragons, vikings

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Feb 21, 2026 04:50AM

“Penn was a student of narrative and knew that lovers should be wooed, relationships fought for, that anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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“It was as if those school years bred a nostalgia so deep into the cells that the body woke to it each fall as naturally as the squirrels in the park began their frenzied harvest, never mind the weather was still fine, the sun still gracing them all.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It's not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that's no badge of honor.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

tags: bravery, courage, sensitivity

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“I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn't bleeding. Sad is okay”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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“The present has become discontinuous. Each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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