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Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, mystery

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makilah’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2)

The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire, #2) by Andrea Stewart

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My father had told me: “If you know a person is lying, don’t countermand them. They’ll dig in. Just continue on with what you know is the truth.” I hated that his advice still held credence, but he’d been cruel, not foolish.

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makilah’s Quotes

“You put your reminders of pain on the wall and pray to them. We still hurt, so we don’t need that reminder.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: book-quotes, fantasy, lotr, tolkien

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“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy

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“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

tags: entertainment, introvert, tv

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