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Amber’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (328)
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2023‎ (125)

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2022‎ (57)
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2024‎ (42)
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2020‎ (15)
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Amber’s Quotes

“But her mind, well trained for messes like spilled tea, conservative governments, and tumbling toward one’s death, reacted calmly.”
― India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches

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“We have only three laws in our Society, Cecilia. No killing civilians. Pour the tea before the milk. And no stealing each other’s houses.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

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“Nothing is easier than to admit the truth of the universal struggle to find a good parking space.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

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“She took the spyglass from a nearby shelf and held it to her eye. The world was a vast black emptiness, echoing like the mordant spaces between soul-wrought words...

Ned leaned across and removed the lens cap, and poetry became science again.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

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“I needed a book in case of emergencies."

"You mean like being attacked by foul-mouthed highwaymen?"

"No, I mean those moments when nothing important is happening, such as during travel. After supper. Before sleeping. Or whilst one's opponent reloads their gun.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

tags: books, bookworm, reading

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