Abigail (acoldwintersread)
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“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
Abigail’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Religion, Romance, Science fiction, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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