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Vanessa is Currently Reading

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Vespertine

by Margaret Rogerson (Goodreads Author)

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The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster

by Shelley Puhak (Goodreads Author)

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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World

by Rosalind Miles

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"This all sounds....convenient. I'm not sure if I believe you" — Jan 16, 2025 08:41AM

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Vanessa’s Notes & Highlights

Carmilla and Laura by S.D. Simper

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After nineteen years of silence, my life hardly felt like a living, breathing world, but a bubble of time, the passage shown only in the graying strands of my father’s hair and my own growth from child to young woman.

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Vanessa’s Quotes

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice

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“Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: love

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“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: love, names

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