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BOOKS READ IN 2022 | wild and wicked things by francesca may

i didn’t want to share this emmeline, the emmeline who had looked, when my lips touched hers, as if the whole world might burn and she would be content; the emmeline who’s breath had whispered promises on my skin, whose hands had tangled in my hair, who had driven me to wildness. this was my emmeline.

[itwasmagic]

BOOKS READ IN 2021 | record of a spaceborn few by becky chambers

‘Some  of us have to go, yes. But some of us have to stay and kick the others out. Otherwise...’ He scratched his chin. ‘Otherwise all we know is the same place. My Great-pa, he was right. We’re meant to go. And we’re meant to stay. Stay and go, each as much as the other. It’s not all or nothing anymore. We’re all over the place. That’s better, I think. That’s smarter.’ He nodded. ‘That’s how we’ll survive, even if not all of us do.’