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The Oleander Sword (The Burning Kingdoms, #2)

by Tasha Suri (Goodreads Author)

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“Cursed or not, she drew her bow across as she would draw her breath. Queer or not, she would play with a cursed bow and be called an abomination. Trans or not, deviant or not, that did not mean there was anything wrong with her love.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

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― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“I saw then how I had changed. I did not mind anymore that I lost when we raced and I lost when we swam out to the rocks and I lost when we tossed spears or skipped stones. For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty? It was enough to watch him win, to see the soles of his feet flashing as they kicked up sand, or the rise and fall of his shoulders as he pulled through the salt. It was enough.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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