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Mad Mabel

by Sally Hepworth (Goodreads Author)

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“The world will try to make you small. It will tell you to be modest, and meek. But the world is wrong. You should get to feel and love and live as boldly as you want.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

tags: boldness, confidence, empowerment, identity, personal-freedom, resistance, self-expression, societal-pressure

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“Tell my wife I love her very much…”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

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“There is one thing I’d like to ask of you,” I started. “One small favor.”
“Anything.” He said it immediately, unconditionally.
“Will you stay with me till the end comes? Will you sit with me in the dark?”
― Erin A. Craig, The Thirteenth Child

tags: fantasy

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“What an awful thing to do to a person! To make them believe they can have the things they never believed they deserved. And then take it away. What an awful thing.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

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“Bravery is being unafraid of something other people are afraid of. Courage is being afraid, but strong enough to do it anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

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