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The Christmas Collection

by Sam Mariano (Goodreads Author)

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"Read: Wrapped in Red - 4 stars. 11/27/2025" — Nov 28, 2025 02:41PM

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Bonded by Thorns (Beasts of the Briar, #1)

by Elizabeth Helen (Goodreads Author)

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"Really enjoying this so far, don't like how Rosalina just accepts how Lucas treated her. But I'm glad she's starting to realize he's a horrible human." — Oct 14, 2025 03:56PM

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Fanfiction

by Archive Of Our Own

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read in January 2025

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Desiree M ~*~*~ LiveReadCollect said: " This is a place holder for most of the fanfic I read in 2025. I'm going to mostly try and keep the ones I track on here to be over 35k words. On my own spreadsheet I'll more than likely keep track of all of them, no matter the length. I just don't ha ...more "

progress: On page 166. "TMoH: Past Alex's death section, I hate seeing when Michael and Liz are separated. So much sadness in those last 4 chapters." — Sep 25, 2025 11:13AM

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Beneath His Vow (Knocked Up and Locked Down #1) by Jessica Ames

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“You make me a monster, Lex,” he says it softly, so at odds with how he’s just taken me, and how he spoke to me. “I lose control around you.” “You’re not a monster,” I pant, my breath hot against the wood beneath my cheek. “You’re my ...more

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Desiree M ~~~’s Quotes

“I’d sign up to flip burgers at the nearest fast-food joint if it meant avoiding doing vaginal exams on my sister. The mere thought was worse than that disgusting horror flick called The Human Centipede. Seriously, if you’ve never seen that movie, don’t fucking see that movie. That flick is more traumatic than the blue waffle and that “Two Girls One Cup” site combined. Jesus. Don’t Google those either.”
― Max Monroe, Dr. OB

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“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

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“Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

tags: beauty, brains

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“I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

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“Of course it's all-consuming, but love- real love- doesn't destroy or smother. It's the very opposite of a weakness. Love strengthens. It liberates. It molds itself to every fiber of your being and fortifies you where where you may be broken.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, The Highwayman

tags: farah-and-dorian, love

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