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“You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.”
― Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917
― Chronicle of Youth: The War Diary, 1913-1917
“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
Iona Scheer’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Iona Scheer’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,231 books
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21 friends
267 books
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19 friends
565 books
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19 friends
554 books
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36 friends
760 books
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41 friends
108 books
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2 friends
48 books
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2 friends
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