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Bye Forever, I Guess

by Jodi Meadows (Goodreads Author)

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A Forbidden Alchemy (The Artisan Trilogy, #1)

by Stacey McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Does It Hurt?

by H.D. Carlton (Goodreads Author)

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ellah (elyse) ☆’s Quotes

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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“I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

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“We men are wretched things.”
― Homer, The Iliad

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“I’ve never understood why mamas are expected to be perfect,’ she said. ‘Men are forever thought of as boys. But girls? Once we’re mamas or once we’re ripe, we can never be girls again. Not in their eyes. But we are always girls and daughters, underneath. Always.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

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“Like Christ, I had become intimately acquainted with violence and the sins of the world, but I had not come away unblemished.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

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