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“But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.”
― Wolf Hollow
― Wolf Hollow
“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life....”
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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion
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Give it up and you will be free.”
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“Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it’s knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.”
― Gravity Is The Thing
― Gravity Is The Thing
“Among the relics of the Anthropocene, therefore, will be the fallout of our atomic age, the crushed foundations of our cities, the spines of millions of intensively farmed ungulates, and the faint outlines of some of the billions of plastic bottles we produce each year – the strata that contain them precisely dateable with reference to the product-design archives of multinationals. Philip Larkin famously proposed that what will survive of us is love. Wrong. What will survive of us is plastic, swine bones and lead-207, the stable isotope at the end of the uranium-235 decay chain.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Cozy Mysteries
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For those who love a good cozy mystery while curled up on the couch with a cup of coffee/tea/cocoa and maybe a dog/cat next to them. Please be kind ...more
Witches, Weres, and Vamps, Oh MY!
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— last activity Dec 29, 2025 07:26AM
Let’s not forget Fairies, Ghosts, Djinn, Angels, Demons and everything else Paranormal! If you are into Paranormal Fiction this is the group for you. ...more
Urban Fantasy
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— last activity Oct 20, 2025 11:48AM
Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings--as oppose ...more
City of Elua - A Jacqueline Carey Fan Group
— 200 members
— last activity Dec 06, 2024 05:37AM
A group for fans of Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's series. ...more
Young Adult Fiction for Adults
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Whatever your age is, if you love reading young adult fiction, then I want to know what you are reading! Let's exchange ideas of good reads, nice idea ...more
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