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The Raven Scholar (Eternal Path Trilogy, #1)

by Antonia Hodgson (Goodreads Author)

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"no pressure to this book but i did specifically save it to be my first read of 2026 so..." — Jan 03, 2026 02:05PM

Jan 03, 2026 02:05PM

“You wondered, when she came along, if this was what most people got to experience in their lives: a straight line from want to satisfaction; desire manifested and satisfied in reasonable succession. This had never been the case before; it had always been fraught. How many times had you said, 'If I just looked a little different, I'd be drowning in love'? Now you got to drown without needing to change a single cell. Lucky you.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

tags: carmen-maria-machado, desire, fraught, in-the-dream-house, love, unrequited-love, want

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“If there is a god, then I think we could find him in the way we care about one another.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

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“For a brief moment, I wonder if I would have listened to him if he hadn't died. Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice had felt unlimited?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid

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