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It was that intensity she’d loved imagining, that feeling of being wholly consumed by another person. Just once she wanted someone to want her. Not her art. Not her talent. Her.
“Every married person he knew seemed desperate to chivvy others into matrimony, no matter how poor an advertisement they themselves were for the institution.”
― Troubled Blood
― Troubled Blood
“Then he closed his eyes, and like millions of his fellow humans, wondered why troubles could never come singly, but in avalanches, so that you became increasingly destabilized with every blow that hit you.”
― Troubled Blood
― Troubled Blood
“. . . she'd seen a flicker of something in his face that wasn't mere friendship, and they'd hugged, and she'd felt . . .
Best not to dwell on that hug, on how like home it had felt, on how a kind of insanity had gripped her at that moment, and she'd imagined him saying 'come with me' and known she'd have gone if he had.”
― Troubled Blood
Best not to dwell on that hug, on how like home it had felt, on how a kind of insanity had gripped her at that moment, and she'd imagined him saying 'come with me' and known she'd have gone if he had.”
― Troubled Blood
Stephanie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stephanie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
416 books
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24 friends
1 book
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12 friends
2 books
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9 friends
78 books
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94 friends
127 books
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5 friends
23 books
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3 friends
1 book
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14 friends
1 book
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11 friends
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Favorite Genres
Fantasy and Young-adult
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