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“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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“But he wasn’t going for the sake of corruption or the kingdom. His tower was broken, he’d drunk Spindle-water, and he’d held my hand. So now he was going to run away as quick as he could, and find himself some new stone walls to hide behind. He’d keep himself locked away for ten years this time, until he withered his own roots, and didn’t feel the lack of them anymore.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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2013 Debut Author Challenge — 186 members — last activity Dec 23, 2013 04:48PM
Interested in joining the Debut Author Challenge? You can check out all the deets here - http://hobbitsies.net/debut-author-challenge/ This group wil ...more

2013 YA Contemporary Challenge — 126 members — last activity Jan 14, 2015 10:28AM
The Goodreads group for the 2013 YA Contemporary Challenge hosted by Katie's Book Blog. ...more

A Killer (Re)Read - The Throne of Glass Series Readalong — 1267 members — last activity Sep 02, 2019 02:28AM
Join us in summer 2014 as we read the first two books in Sarah J. Maas's bestselling series--Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight--in advance of the ...more