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Nicole’s blurbs-and-opinions shelf

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia

The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex by Tamsyn Muir

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

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Nicole’s Quotes

“What you were saying about speaking. That's what music is for. Anyone can understand.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow

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“And everyone is alive, somewhere in time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

tags: life, time

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“Sometimes what’s unlikely is much better or more interesting than what’s likely. So I write it down so that there’s a record of it, when I forget. The book is for dead memories.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

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“It was much better to be able to think anything could happen, even if it couldn't.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

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“Myth and legend give way to history, which gives way again to myth, like curtains parting and meeting again on either side of a performance. xxx All good stories travel from the outside in.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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