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Viola
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(page 22 of 192)
""my chest collapses into my stomach knowing that i have to get up in the morning and pretend i’m not fading away all over again."" — Apr 18, 2022 07:40PM
""my chest collapses into my stomach knowing that i have to get up in the morning and pretend i’m not fading away all over again."" — Apr 18, 2022 07:40PM
Viola
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""...and beheaded Lord Stannis’s onion knight.”
Oh. Damn. Did they really? I don't remember that happening. I find it rather disappointing. I actually liked that character." — Nov 24, 2021 08:11PM
""...and beheaded Lord Stannis’s onion knight.”
Oh. Damn. Did they really? I don't remember that happening. I find it rather disappointing. I actually liked that character." — Nov 24, 2021 08:11PM
Viola
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in March 2018
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(page 68 of 551)
""She couldn't help noticing that her cousin's hands were soft, the nails clean and manicured. It made Lyss hyperconscious of her own hands - callused and cracked and dirt-stained."
DEFINITELY been there a time or two. But I've found it's just easier to embrace your wilder side. It's more fun, anyhow." — Jun 07, 2020 10:24AM
""She couldn't help noticing that her cousin's hands were soft, the nails clean and manicured. It made Lyss hyperconscious of her own hands - callused and cracked and dirt-stained."
DEFINITELY been there a time or two. But I've found it's just easier to embrace your wilder side. It's more fun, anyhow." — Jun 07, 2020 10:24AM
“And THAT is how you fall into an abusive relationship: when you start acting in a way so as not to upset the other person or set them off. You’ve given away control of your own life, bit by bit, bit by bit. It’s incremental, until one day, you have hidden so much of yourself you get lost.”
― Brave
― Brave
“Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.”
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“Never allow loneliness to drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with...”
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“She didn't understand how other people did it, how they just strolled right up to strangers and started conversations -- how they made themselves into people strangers would ever want to meet. She wasn't shy, not exactly. She was afraid.”
― Top Ten
― Top Ten
“When you’re a weird kid, you learn to put guardrails around the things you love. You keep them hidden heart-deep, lest someone try to take them, mock them, or co-opt them out of cruelty or just plain clumsiness.”
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
― Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
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