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Redline (Redline Duology, #1)

by Amber Vant (Goodreads Author)

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May 22, 2026 08:12AM

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The Ballad of Falling Dragons (Moonfall, #2)

by Sarah A. Parker

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Crown Me Yours (Heartstring Duet, #2)

by Liv Zander (Goodreads Author)

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May 09, 2026 06:52AM

read_by_mal’s Quotes

“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 road trip would have been romantic, cathartic maybe, to feel each mile drop behind them, to watch the landscape change and change again, to eat hamburgers in sticky diners and make picnics from sad grocery stores and take over motels so beaten they could afford to stay two to a room and everyone could have his own bed.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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“All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet.”
― 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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“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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