“What puzzled her most was that nothing had been missing from her life before him — how could he feel essential now?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own
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Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
Don’t remember limping home through the trees, believing them empty.
They were always full of ghosts.
You were already becoming one.
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Lester Furnival and Evelyn Mercer from Charles Williams’ All Hallows Eve. Underrated 1940s fantasy book about ghosts and creepy magic in world war two era London. Charles Williams was in the Inklings writing group with JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis
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those C U N N I N G folk
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read in 2020: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
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“It’s because you actually care about what happens to this country,” I said. “The throne is just a prize to Vasily, something he wants to squabble over like a favorite toy. You’re not like that. You’ll make a good king.”
Nikolai froze. “I…” For once, words seemed to have deserted him. Then a crooked, embarrassed smile crept across his face. It was a far cry from his usual self-assured grin. “Thank you,” he said.
I sighed as we resumed our pace. “You’re going to be insufferable now, aren’t you?”
Nikolai laughed. “I’m already insufferable.”
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noughts & crosses, malorie blackman
“Maybe I just imagined it. I can’t be certain. I don’t know.”
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