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Elyssa

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Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

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What kind of lessons do these buddingly religious townschildren receive, anyway? Are they learning math and biology and reading Anne of Green Gables?

“No matter how silly you feel or uncool you look, no matter how small that voice inside you is, that voice telling you something isn’t right: listen to it.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir

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“We were all alive, and we loved and hated and lived brilliant, messy existences. The air is thick with our wanting.”
― Katie Crouch, Abroad

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels — 74 members — last activity Apr 15, 2012 06:37AM
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This is a group for people who enjoy all types of supernatural fiction (scary or not), set in our own world: ghost stories, vampires, witches and sorc ...more