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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Steel Gods (The Great Silence #2) by Richard Swan

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“The legacy of the tyrant is always a fleeting thing, for he is unable to build, only destroy. His laws and reforms extract the lifeblood from public works like a parasite, and concentrate it in the hands of the already wealthy. His ...more

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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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“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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“Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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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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“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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