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“There are times when it is entirely safe to show one’s vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.”
― Deanna Raybourn, A Curious Beginning

“But something about the yellow streetlamps going past soothed her nerves. They were so ordinary, and so very urban. The city was safe and rational. Outside its borders, she now knew, you could trust nothing.”
― Neil Sharpson, Knock Knock, Open Wide

“But perhaps skin and bones have a little memory to them, even after the soul is gone to greater things. And the bones in the museum had spent decade after decade marinating in my uncle’s fierce, befuddled kindness.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“Sera would happily read a good book on the screen of her phone if that was all she had to hand, but there was something about the ink, paper, and dust of an old book that simply couldn’t be beaten.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping