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A Song to Drown Rivers

by Ann Liang (Goodreads Author)

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“Everyone is taking the best shot they’ve got, and some shots are just luckier than yours. Anytime you feel your unhappiness turning into bitterness, you have to check yourself. You can live with unhappiness, but bitterness will kill”
― Richard Osman, We Solve Murders

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“I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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“If I’d known I was about to meet the man who’d shatter me like bone china on terra-cotta, I would have slept in. Instead,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

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“Something wet drifted down to my face. Was that rain? I hoped no one would mistake it for tears.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

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“Father loved the fact that a lilac only blossoms after a harsh winter.”
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