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Book lover &...well...book lover

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The cave of womanhood feels cozy to me...But because womanhood is "home" to me does not mean that I wish to stay home all the time. The cave would become fetid if I never went out. I have too much energy, too much curiosity, too much force to remain so confined. Whole areas of myself would either atrophy or sour.

~Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

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"But Zoe looked like she was in on a joke—like at any moment she was going to say knock, knock and the whole world was going to lean close enough to whisper who’s there?"

Ally Carter, The Blonde Identity

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"So that’s how she found herself straddling a stranger on top of a floating terrarium while two dozen tourists took photos from below."

~ Ally Carter, The Blonde Identity

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"This is a road trip action rom-com about a woman who wakes up with amnesia and, immediately, people start trying to kill her. She thinks, “OMG! I’m a spy.” But she’s not: she’s a spy’s identical twin sister. Her only hope is to team up with her sister’s (very hot, very grump) former partner to stay alive."

~ Ally Carter on The Blonde Identity

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when oscar wilde said, "most people go bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

to have ruined oneself over poetry is an honor ."

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"What do you care if I'm safe?"

"I guess I'm just trying to be the good guy."

~ Ally Carter, The Blonde Identity

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"What are friends for, if not to kill your enemies."

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He came to life when she smiled, drew breath when her eyes brightened, died when she left a room.

~ Tahereh Mafi

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"Oh, she had never feared death. No, it was life that scared her, life that scarred her. It was the slow torture of consciousness that had done its utmost to crush her."

~ Tahereh Mafi

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"I hate you," he whispered.

"I hate everything about you. Your eyes. Your lips. Your smile." His words grazed her skin when he said, softly, "I find your presence insufferable."

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"What is your name?”

“Of all the non sequiturs. Why do you need to know my name?”

“So that I may hate you more informally.”

“Ah. Well, in that case, you may call me Cyrus.”

“Cyrus,” she said. “You insufferable monster. Where on earth are we going?

~ Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

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What a strange girl you are...to behold a rose and perceive only its thorns, never the bloom.

~ Tahereh Mafi, This Woven Kingdom

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when khalil gibran said, "We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."

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"She liked her men a little afraid of her."

~ Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

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"You need to keep finding your own ways to comfort yourself."

~ Baek Sehee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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when oscar wilde said, "to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people just exist, that is all."

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey