Balqees

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Balqees’s Notes & Highlights

The Doctor's Discretion by E.E. Ottoman

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When he'd been younger, he'd chosen clothes that were as aggressively male as he could find —coats that made him look larger and his shoulders broader. As he got older, though, it felt more and more like he was coming into himself, giving ...more

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Balqees’s Quotes

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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“If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.”
― Marie Brennan, A Natural History of Dragons

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