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Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

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Jillian is Currently Reading

Jillian is currently reading

Spitting Gold

by Carmella Lowkis

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— May 26, 2026 08:44AM

May 26, 2026 08:44AM

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Our Cut of Salt

by Deena Helm (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: sept, best-covers, hardcover, tor, currently-reading

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Jillian’s Quotes

“Stories always begin the same way: There was and there was not. There is possibility in those words, the chance for hope or despair.”
― Melissa Bashardoust, Girl, Serpent, Thorn

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“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

tags: king-of-scars, leigh-bardugo, nikolai-lantsov, thorns, zoya-nazyalensky

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“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“If you can only love a child that exists within the boundaries of your expectations- if you would harm them to make them what you want-then you have no business being a parent at all.”
― Ivelisse Housman, Unseelie

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