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makilah is Currently Reading

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

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) by Becky Chambers

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The idea that a loss of potential was somehow worse than a loss of achievement and knowledge was something she had never been able to wrap her brain around.

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makilah’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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