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Michelle is Currently Reading

Michelle is currently reading

The Mask Falling (The Bone Season, #4)

by Samantha Shannon (Goodreads Author)

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Michelle’s Quotes

“A romance is a belief in the impossible: that anything ends happily.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

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“Because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into American letters, turns into gold. Our sorrow Midas touched. Napalm with a rainbow afterglow. Unlike feelings, blood gets realer when you feel it. I'm trying to be real but it costs too much.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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“Slighted things needed you to witness the wound you gave them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo

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“How can we know, with a house full of bread, that it’s hunger, not people, that survives?”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

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