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Better in Black

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One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) by Rachel Gillig

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I was young. But even then, I’d known to be wary of the mist. “Those who came upon it lost their way, and often their minds,” my mother had said. “The mist spread, isolating us from neigh-boring kingdoms. Worse, children who tarried in it ...more

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“Trees in your eyes ... Stars in your heart.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

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“It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive. After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena