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Book cover for How to Excavate a Heart
For the three days I was home, all I did was avoid my mom’s gaze and respond to her perfectly reasonable questions with one-word answers. I had reverted back to being a petulant child. Because the thing no one tells you about going away to ...more
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Riley Redgate
“I promise you, two dozen words were not the difference between mediocrity and excellence. Make a habit of burning something to ash before expecting a rebirth.”
Riley Redgate, Final Draft

Madeline Miller
“there was something in me that was sick of fear and aw, of gazing at the heavens and wondering what someone would allow me”
Madeline Miller, Circe

Riley Redgate
“Interrogate your instincts. Insecurity isn’t shameful. Attraction isn’t an embarrassment. Interpersonal affection isn’t a side note to be glossed over. Whatever the nature of the material that forms between two people, it’s the backbone of literature.”
Riley Redgate, Final Draft

Riley Redgate
“Maybe Nazarenko’s guidance would puncture her, but something would grow back over the injury, not scar tissue but armor, gleaming and valuable.”
Riley Redgate, Final Draft

Riley Redgate
“Hannah gave a feral smile and let her dark eyes bore into Laila’s. This was one of several reasons people were terrified of her: the Hannah Park stare. If it weren’t enough that Hannah was beautiful, in the same way an ice storm or a forest fire was beautiful, she also had the habit of making more unbroken, intense eye contact than was comfortable for anybody.”
Riley Redgate, Final Draft

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