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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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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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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? 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, that have taken hold.”
― JRR Tolkien

tags: frodo, frodo-baggins, lord-of-the-rings, the-return-of-the-king

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“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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“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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