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📖 books i read in 2024: mindf*ck series by s. t. abby

“To defeat a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul.”

#mindfuck series #s.t. abby

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read in 2024: seven days in june by tia williams

“One thing,” she whispered, her lips by his jaw. She didn’t want anyone to overhear. “Before I forget.” “What’s that?” “Stop writing about me.” [...] In a voice both raspy and low, and so, so familiar, Shane said, “You first.”

#seven days in june #tia williams

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Mama used to say magic was the world, and I never believed it until I found a stack of letters waiting for me at home one day, all tattered and rain spotted. Letters I knew that came from you.

the conductors by nicole glover

#the conductors #nicole glover

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Books read in 2024: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual.

#convenience store woman #sayaka murata

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c.s. lewis, 1950

#the lion the witch and the wardrobe #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis

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read in 2024: the inheritance games by jennifer lynn barnes

He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.

#the inheritance games #jennifer lynn barnes

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"I don't believe that who we are is ever set in stone. We are transitory creatures—every day, we wake up as someone new, changed just a little bit by the experiences of the day before. Who we were is always a part of us, but it doesn't determine who we are, nor who we can still become."

#bloodleaf trilogy #crystal smith #ebonwilde #bloodleaf

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- c.s. lewis, 1954

#the horse and his boy #the chronicles of narnia #c.s. lewis

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“I don’t want to make your coffee anymore, Paul.”

“I don’t want you to either. I’ve actually gotten really good at making it for myself.” He waits for me to play along, offer a retort, and when I don’t, he clears his throat.

- The Project by Courtney Summers

#the project #courtney summers

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“You did this,” he cried. “You killed us all! You’re a monster! You’re evil!” He tried to say more: she had betrayed everyone in the kingdom of Celdaria, everyone in the world. She was supposed to be the Sun Queen, their savior and protector. And yet she had become the Blood Queen. The Kingsbane. The Lady of Death.

FURYBORN by Claire Legrand

#rielle dardenne #empirium trilogy #claire legrand

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"You're testing me. You shouldn't." "Why not? You're the perfect hero, aren't you?" "I'm not your salvation."

— Dark Heir by CS Pacat

#dark heir #dark rise #c.s. pacat

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Cantoras by Caro De Robertis

"She looked out at the landscape, now cloaked in the last dregs of twilight. A beauty she could never get used to, never wanted to get used to, though she longed to know it in every light and mood."

#cantoras #caro de robertis

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endless amount of favorite character aesthetics:

No longer a Maiden, not quite a Wise One. Her entire identity had been wrapped up in those spears, her self forged into their steel as surely as the carbon that strengthened them. She had grown from childhood certain that she would be Far Dareis Mai. Indeed, she had joined the Maidens as soon as possible. the gathering storm. brandon sanderson/robert jordan.

↳ aviendha - the wheel of time. by robert jordan

#aviendha #wheel of time #robert jordan

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i hope this doesn't find you by ann liang

because beneath my apprehension is the stronger, deeply ingrained need to be liked. to be accepted. to be forgiven. to be recognized as good. i'll do anything to redeem myself.

#i hope this doesn't find you #ann liang

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“Omnia dicta fortiori si dicta Latina.”

#ninth house #leigh bardugo

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some books read in 2024: the sword of kaigen, m.l. wang

Misaki tied the obsidian sword at her hip and realized how much she had ached for its weight there. A baby just wasn’t the same.

#the sword of kaigen #m.l. wang

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ROBIN HOBB’S REALM OF THE ELDERLINGS >> The Southern Sagas

She Who Remembers opened wide her gills once more. She tasted a mystery in the waves. She had restored the two-legs to his ship, but the ship both frightened and attracted her. The silvery grey hull of the vessel flavored the water ahead of her. She followed it, drinking in the elusive tang of memories.

#realm of the elderlings #the liveship traders #rain wild chronicles #robin hobb