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Jess is Currently Reading

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Revolution in the Heart

by Jonathan Strahan (Goodreads Author)

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Witch King (The Rising World, #1)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

by Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)

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Jess’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2)

The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin

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They ask to touch her hair and she asks to touch theirs back. This makes them all realize how strange and silly a request that is, and they giggle and become instant friends without a head petted between them.

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Jess’s Quotes

“The problem with saving someone, Bella thinks, is that they so often refuse to remain saved. They careen back out into the perilous world, inviting every danger and calamity, quite careless of the labor it took to rescue them in the first place.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Or perhaps for all of them: for the little girls thrown in cellars and the grown women sent to workhouses, the mothers who shouldn’t have died and the witches who shouldn’t have burned. For all the women punished merely for wanting what they shouldn’t”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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“Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

tags: forests, nature

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“The adults all agreed, without a word exchanged, that if Regan’s act of human heroism was to give comfort and friendship to one lonely centaur girl, they would consider her efforts to have been well spent.”
― Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields

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“Witching and women's rights. Suffrage and spells. They're both..." She gestures in midair again. "They're both a kind of power, aren't they? The kind we aren't allowed to have.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

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