Books

• dedicated to my favourite books & quotes •

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"I wake to the sound of my alarm. I'm back in my house, in bed. Alive and heartbroken for it. I curl up under the covers and weep"

- C.J. Cooke (The Ghost Woods)

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from Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Benjamin Alire Sáenz)

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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

-Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

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"He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none."

-Madeline Miller (Circe)

[bookgeekconfessions]

Oct. 2021!!!!!

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She brushed the hair back from his face, placed a kiss on his forehead. "I would stay forever if I could," she whispered. He wouldn't remember anyway."

-Leigh Bardugo (Rule of Wolves)

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Finally got my copy of Rule of Wolves! My edition came with this beautiful KoS duology poster “You are strong enough to survive the fall”.

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"I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was." -Ransom Riggs

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"Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste."

-Leigh Bardugo (Crooked Kingdom)

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"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."

- Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows)

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"You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why."

- John Green (Turtles All the Way Down)

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"I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand."

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe)

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"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."

-Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

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"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."

-Stephen King (The Shining”)

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"Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator."

-Neal Shusterman (Scythe)

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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

-Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

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"I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside."

-Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)