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Mother of Death & Dawn (The War of Lost Hearts, #3)

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The Wedding People by Alison Espach

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“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”

Circe

by Madeline Miller

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“becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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“She feels like maybe that wasn’t a waste of time after all, if it allowed her to be present in this moment. And maybe that’s it: You do things in the moment for the person you hope you might be two years from now.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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“And now they are back, but they are different, because nobody comes back from the dead the same. You emerge always with a little bit of the underworld on you, the lesion, the scar, having seen unspeakable things.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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