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The Everlasting

by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 06, 2026 10:13AM

“Soyez sûrs qu’une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s’écrie ‘elle est en acier !’ Elle est ‘en femme’, simplement, et cela suffit”
― Colette

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“Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge. Maybe there are knife-edged words waiting to draw blood.”
― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

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“As he spoke, it occurred to her that maybe he, too, felt like two people, that maybe everybody does, and that it's not a question of whether one's damaged, but of how easily or not that damage is seen.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

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“These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It's love that demands effort, love that exacts a price from each of us. Love costs; this is its value.”
― Erika Johansen, The Fate of the Tearling

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