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Jacqui is Currently Reading

Jacqui is currently reading

The Nocturnals

by Frances Whiting

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Under the Whispering Door

by T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

by Caitlin Doughty

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Jacqui’s Quotes

“The waiting begins early, I think. The lies begin early. But so do dreams and hopes and stories.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

7 likes

“Jonas is always looking well mum." Thick black hair you can grasp in your fists, pale green eyes, skin burned by sap and pine, a wild creature, the most beautiful man on earth.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“There is no such thing as unforgiveable between people who love each other. But even as I'm thinking it, I know it's not really true.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“If I could fly backward, I would," I said. To the safety of branches, to the time when my heart raced for him like a hummingbird's, 1,200 beats per second. And he said, as he always did, "I know.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“He takes my hair in his fists, kisses me. Rough, hard, unhinged. I don't want to give in, but I kiss him back with a love that feels like drowning. The breathless desire to breathe.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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