Tag: Featured
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Out of the Clear Blue Sky
“People can be ripped out of your life for all sorts of different reasons. Sometimes you’ll never see it coming.”
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Acts of Violet
Acts of Violet || Thank you, Booksparks and Libro.Fm, for the perfect reading experience! Genre: FictionTrope: Mystery, Magical RealismFormat: 🎧Pub Date: 7.5.2022Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Summary: “Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn’t been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than […]
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Things We Do in the Dark
“While you can reinvent yourself, you can’t outrun yourself. As a woman once reminded her a long time ago, the common denominator in all the terrible things that have happened to you is you.”
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Two Nights in Lisbon
“It’s a tone that a man uses when he thinks he’s being a reasonable one. A tone that transcends generations, cultures, and languages. The universal tone of condescension.”
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Meant to Be
Thank you, Penguin Random House, for the gifted copy of Meant to Be {partner} Genre: RomanceFormat: 🎧Pub Date: 5.31.2022Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Summary: “The Kingsley family is practically American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. When Joseph S. Kingsley III is born in 1960, he inherits the weight of that legacy. […]
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The Dead Romantics
“..the wind is just the breath of everyone who came before us. All the people who’ve passed on, those who’ve taken a breath. They’re still in the wind. And they’ll always be in the wind singing.”
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Circe
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
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On Rotation
“Finding someone to love you romantically is easy… there’s a whole cocktail of brain chemicals at work.. plus a rulebook for relationships we’ve all been following since infancy. Friendship doesn’t have any of that, so finding someone who will hold you down for no reason is rare.”
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The Beach Trap
“The point of life is to be alive in the world, to feel every emotion, even the messy and painful ones. To challenge yourself, to take risks, to find beauty in the imperfections and be grateful for the opportunity to experience it all.”
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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
“Sometimes, you didn’t have to lift a finger to get exactly what you wanted. Sometimes, all you had to do was sit back and do nothing.”
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The Diamond Eye
“Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”
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These Impossible Things
“Some evenings demand you walk through them. You can’t get on a bus or in a car because then you’ll miss it. Miss the exact moment the changing summer sky turns from blue to pink to black.”
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Rivals
“Change happens one generation at a time. HOPEFULLY, if I go through hardship, future generations won’t have to.”
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The Counselors
“Eight magical weeks at Camp Alpine Lake. Nothing exists outside this place. Not even the past.”
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Island Time
“What is good for the land comes first; if you have plenty, you must share, and if it’s not yours, you shall not take.”
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The Cherry Robbers
“When you live in defiance of yourself, you can adapt to your circumstances, but remnants of who you are at your core remain. A bit of wildne
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Our Last Days in Barcelona
There is a change your soul undergoes when you experience loss, exile, and you recognize that essence in the people you meet who have undergone such a transformation themselves, who know what’s it’s like to not belong anywhere”
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