Christine

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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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Christine’s Notes & Highlights

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

“They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

tags: death, death-of-a-loved-one, ghosts-of-the-past, grief, past

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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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“It's like we're all going up a flight of stairs together and at a certain point I say "this is as far as I go." And on that step, higher up, they're all happy and I watch them from below.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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“I would say the moment between when you decided to kiss me and when we actually kissed, that is where I wish to live forever. Inside my anticipation, dying to receive you.”
― Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

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“I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up, to wilt, to lose bone, to die, and death is the most boring.”
― Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

tags: death, grief, monstrilio, suffering, withering

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