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![この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1357027313l/17200983._SX50_.jpg "この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani")
“one of those grim reminders that your life is small and the world is big, and even when it feels like it’s falling down, it’s only falling down on you. To everyone else, it’s just going on as usual.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And here is the awful thing about belief. It is a current, like compulsion. Hard to forge when it goes against your will, but easy enough when it carries you the way you want to go.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Death comes, and sometimes it is kind, and often it is cruel, and very rarely it is welcome. But it comes all the same.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“From that moment on she insisted she would only read romance, as if love and horror could not go hand-in-hand”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And as she did, she told her daughter what it meant to be a wife. Gentle. Loving. Obedient. Words that made María tense. And, as if her mother could feel her stiffening, she leaned close and said, “You will learn, it is better to bend than to break.” María stared into the hearth. “Why should I be the one who bends?”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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