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Tyler Hal

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Bloom Town: Genesis

by Ally North (Goodreads Author)

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"Part of my beef with the MC is the voice of the audiobook reader. She says everything so tremblingly 😬" — May 06, 2026 02:45PM

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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

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“There, that wasn’t so bad, was it?” Even before my terror can blossom, the venom takes effect and in an instant, I don’t care. About anything. I hang there in absolute peace as I am slowly devoured.

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“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

tags: home

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“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

tags: mental-illness, suicidal-thoughts

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“You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody.”
― Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

tags: grief-and-loss, memoir, mental-health, mental-health-awareness, siblings

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“Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

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“...repeated trauma in childhood forms and deforms the personality. The child trapped in an abusive environment is faced with formidable tasks of adaptation. She must find a way to preserve a sense of trust in people who are untrustworthy, safety in a situation that is unsafe, control in a situation that is terrifyingly unpredictable, power in a situation of helplessness. Unable to care for or protect herself, she must compensate for the failures of adult care and protection with the only means at her disposal, an immature system of psychological defenses.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror