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Jess is Currently Reading

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab

bookshelves: 2026, fiction, supernatural, currently-reading

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Jess’s Quotes

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

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“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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“I'll eat you up I love you so.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

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