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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

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But when you were Grisha, even staying still could mean courting trouble.

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“From the very beginning, and throughout the whole of our affair, I had the privilege of knowing what we all find out in the end: the man we love is a complete stranger.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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“I looked out over the beautiful expanse, bathed in soft yellow moonlight till it was almost as light as day. In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness.”
― Bram Stoker

tags: atmosphere, dracula, horror, landscape, landscapes, vampires

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“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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“One opposite of imagination is “efficiency.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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“I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

tags: love-passion

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