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Christine is Currently Reading

Christine is currently reading

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1)

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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Notes of a Crocodile

by Qiu Miaojin

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Book cover for The High King's Golden Tongue (Tales of the High Court, #1)

The High King's Golden Tongue (Tales of the High Court, #1) by Megan Derr

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What if, despite all the preparations, the High King did not want to marry him? It was, unfortunately, a possible outcome. Everyone knew High King Sarrica had been madly in love with his late husband, High Consort Nyle, who had been ...more

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Christine’s Quotes

“That was Ruby. A Technicolor girl in a black-and-white world.”
― Stephen Spotswood, Murder Under Her Skin

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“If you only ever make a change when you’re unhappy, you’ll always be in the position of running away from something, never running toward it.”
― Charlie Adhara, Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

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“To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be thirty, thirty-five, and yet still largely described by her sisters in terms of things which happened to be true at the age of seventeen.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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“The sensation, then, not so much of being misunderstood as being understood too well at one time and then never again.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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“he took Gaspar’s face in his hands, leaned down to look him in the eyes, and caressed his hair, the box on the ground between them, and he said, You have something of mine, I passed on something of me to you, and hopefully it isn’t cursed, I don’t know if I can leave you something that isn’t dirty, that isn’t dark, our share of night. I like this, said Gaspar, and his father replied, Of course you do, because now nothing can hurt you. Nothing? Right now, nothing.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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