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Nicole’s blurbs-and-opinions shelf

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth

The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

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Nicole’s Quotes

“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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“She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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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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“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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