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The Nightmare Before Kissmas (Royals and Romance, #1)

by Sara Raasch (Goodreads Author)

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Tears of the Wolf (Wrath and Weeping, #1)

by Elisabeth Wheatley (Goodreads Author)

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Emily’s Quotes

“The truth scarcely matters when it comes to a good tale.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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“Fussy babies answer to no authority.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi

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“People like you have the luxury of failing more than once. The world will pick you up, dust you off, and send you on your way, nothing lost and nothing gained. You get to keep going, and going, until you get the result you want. And if you do decide to give up, there's a nice cushion for you to land on. That's why you have mottoes like 'fail fast,' and 'failure is the best teacher.”
― F.C. Yee, The Iron Will of Genie Lo

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“I'm down fifty pounds and I should be thrilled, but it's super awkward to have people call attention to me. It's like people think they're saying something that should make me feel really great. Instead, it's a reminder that they didn't like the way I looked before. That I'm fat and everybody has been judging me all along.”
― Kelly deVos, Fat Girl on a Plane

tags: fat, weight-loss

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“Ah yes, a certain degree of rebelliousness is expected from youth. It is why we have stories of treasure-seeking princesses and warrior women that end with the occasional happiness. But they are expected to end—with the boy, the prince, the sailor, the adventurer. The man that will take her maidenhood, grant her children, make her a wife. The man who defines her. He may continue his epic—he may indeed take new wives and make new children!—but women’s stories are expected to dissolve into a fog of domesticity . . . if they’re told at all.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

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