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4/5 stars — belly whenever there’s emotional turmoil or interpersonal conflict: 🏊♀️🏃♀️💨for me this was not as strong as book one- the timeline felt harder to follow (flashbacks were less clearly defined, plus now we’ve introduced Jeremiah’s POV), a ...more "
4 It seems obvious to say, and yet worth saying, that most of these moments of violence are due to the colonialist’s instinct to transport, cage, and own what is fundamentally unownable: a wild animal, or even nature itself.
“Where you're born is sometimes all that separates a sure thing from a long shot.”
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“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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