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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

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As much as Alex tried to comfort her, she couldn’t stop the flashbacks, not when a pregnancy was, after all, a medical ordeal. Not a spiritual awakening.

Visions of Glory

by John Pontius

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In the Miso Soup

by Ryū Murakami

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“I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: infatuation

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“It is not given to each of us
To be desired.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

tags: desire, poems, poetry

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“I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

tags: desire, the-lover

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“I have never met anyone who gave back a heart they stole.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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