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The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue

by Zoulfa Katouh (Goodreads Author)

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Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight

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I was deemed too insane to deal with employees after I burned one of their eyes out for calling me scum.

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“Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

tags: love, possessiveness

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“Alice would always remember this day as the one that changed her life irrevocably, even though it would take her the next twenty years to understand: life is lived forward but only understood backward. You can't see the landscape you're in while you're in it”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

tags: flowers, recovery, trauma

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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

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“life is lived forward but only understood backward. You can’t see the landscape you’re in while you’re in it.”
― Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

tags: cardan, jude, lust, the-cruel-prince

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