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Holly is Currently Reading

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Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant, #8)

by Derek Landy

bookshelves: 2021, best-of-2021, currently-reading

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How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)

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Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)

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Holly’s Notes & Highlights

Any Man by Amber Tamblyn

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We sink to the bottom of each other’s oceans, drowning in shared silence.

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“Of course, eating these food items is not what I might describe as pleasant, since they’re tough and scorched and moistureless from their all-day cooking on high-temperature rollers. Sometimes biting through a burrito’s thick tortilla casing can feel like chewing through your own toe calluses.” “That’s an image that’s going to linger.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

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“We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

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“There are no supplements for people who suffer from a sympathy deficit, and my husband has always been easily distracted by his own thoughts and feelings.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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“The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

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“So we’re good?” Dillon says. “We’re in an overheating truck we don’t own and we just blew up about twelve semis and we left a paralyzed woman to die in her car and I’m wearing some dead guy’s jacket and we just saw our two best friends die and there’s a killer after us who can change his face and likes to eat people,” Harper says. “Yeah, I’d say we’re great.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Killer on the Road / The Babysitter Lives

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