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“Before I met you I was only half-alive.”
― Julia Quinn, Bridgerton Collection, Volume 1

“It’s not the writing that tells the story, it’s the reading. Words on a page aren’t a legacy until they’re read.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

“Daphne noticed that there were actually tears in her mother’s eyes. No one ever gave her flowers, she realized. At least not since her father had died ten years earlier. Violet was such a mother—Daphne had forgotten that she was a woman as well.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame