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by M.T. Anderson

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"yall I am STRUGGLING! I think the beginning of this book is supposed to be hard to read, that’s the point, but dear god I feel like I’m reading my adhd ramblings." — Feb 17, 2026 07:34PM

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The Nickel Boys

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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)

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Book cover for Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)

Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1) by Kaylie Smith

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She wondered what it would be like to have that mouth on her skin. Running along her clavicle, over her chest, down her stomach, to her…

damn girl already??

Enchantra (Wicked Games, #2)

by Kaylie Smith

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shelby’s Quotes

“I am a mortal who has woken up, and there is power in awareness.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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“In a dark world, eyes naturally find the light. She becomes the brightest thing in his.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

tags: love

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“This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: comfort-lies, defensiveness, ignorance-is-bliss, willful-ignorance

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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: fallibility, humor

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