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“They open my eyes to burn them with light. They open my ears to stab them with sound. They open my nerves to set them on fire..” 💙📚

~ Intercepts; T.J Payne 4⭐️’s

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“Deliver me a pain that I can feel. Let me know that I am alive.”

“He tried to hate all of humanity for being so fragile and ephemeral but he couldn't keep it up because hating everyone is the same as hating no one.” 💙📚

~ Tender is the flesh; Agustina Bazterrica 3⭐️’s

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“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it," Ead continued. "It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.” 💙📚

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.” 💙📚

~ The Priory Of The Orange Tree; Samatha Shannon 4.5⭐️’s

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“There is great power in stories.”

Currently reading The priory of the Orange tree and I’m five hundred pages in loving every second. But if Aralaq dies? I’m rioting 🥴

“Maddie? Is something wrong?” “Don’t come here,” she whispered, still refusing to look at me. “It’s not safe.” 📚💙

~ The turn of the key; Ruth Ware 3.5⭐️’s

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“The ghosts, she had sobbed. The ghosts wouldn’t like it.”

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.” 💙📚

“I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”📚💙

~The Nightingale; Kristin Hannah 4.5⭐️’s

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“in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

I don’t think I’ll forget this book any time soon❤️

“When faced with true sorrow, people lose even the strength to shed tears.”📚💙

~ Strange Pictures; Uketsu. 3⭐️’s

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“When enough people are quiet for long enough, a handful of voices can give the impression that everyone is screaming.” 📚💙

~ Beartown; Fredrick Backman 4⭐️’s

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Such a poignant read and beautifully written ❤️

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward."

“That’s the tricky thing about movies. They can be wonderful and beautiful and amazing. But they’re not like life, which is wonderful, beautiful, and amazing in a different way.” 📚💙

~ Survive the Night; Riley Sager 3⭐️’s

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“Few things are more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose.” ❤️

“Tyrants aren't born. They're raised.”💙📚

~ Nero; Conn Iggulden 4⭐️’s

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Ugh I love a good villainous heroine 🥰

“The closer you are to the heart of the empire, the closer you are to power, intrigue, and danger.”

I’m a glutton for pretty book covers 🤤

“I asked her what would happen to me if I let her into my heart, she told me I would go where she comes from. We’d switch places, she said. I told her I didn’t want to be in the closet. She told me that’s not where she comes from.”💙📚

~ Incidents around the house; Josh Malerman 3⭐️’s

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One of my favourite series 🙌🏻 enjoy!

“You’re not broken, Dot.” He stuck the cigarette in his mouth, patting my thigh offhandedly. “A little cut, sure. All diamonds are.” 📚💙

~ Truly, Madly, Deeply; L.J Shen. 3.5⭐️’s

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“The darkness envies the moon because it helps it shine.” ✨❤️

“I press my hands against my chest, wishing I could somehow be even closer to him. I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.” 📚💙

~ Exquisite Corpse; Poppy Z . Brite. 4⭐️’s

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“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”📚💙

~ This is how you lose the time war; Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 3⭐️’s

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“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself.”

“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety percent of the universe.” 📚💙

~ The Mist; Stephen King. 3.5⭐️’s

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This is brilliant historical thriller carrying a powerful message of colonisation and the cyclical nature of violence, exploring how historical events, like the massacre of Blackfeet, impact subsequent generations. A beautifully crafted novel that I’d encourage anyone to read ❤️

“The depravity of man's heart knows no floor, and everyone in this hard country has a sordid chapter in the story of their life, that they're trying either to atone for, or stay ahead of.” 📚💙

~ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter; Stephen Graham Jones. 4⭐️’s

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“There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very very good, and when she was bad she was horrid.” 📚💙

~ Horrid; Katrina Leno 2⭐️’s

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“She ripped the corner from the page and put it in her mouth.” ❤️

“Life is a gift, not a given.” 💙📚

~ The cancer ladies running club; Josie Lloyd 3.5⭐️’s

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This book undertakes such a complex exploration of power dynamics, class, and the human capacity for both cruelty and compassion. It’s definitely one to add to your bookshelves! 📚❤️

“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world.”

”You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.” 📚💙

~ the collector; John Fowles 3.5⭐️’s

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A great little Sci-fi series which I thoroughly enjoyed emerging myself in. I would certainly recommend to all cyberpunk fans who have yet to be introduced to Morgan’s work 📚❤️

“Rage at injustice is a forest fire — it jumps all divides,
even those between generations.” 💙📚

~ Woken Furies; Richard Morgan. 4⭐️’s

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“The difference between virtuality & life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine. Reality doesn’t offer this assurance, so it’s very easy to develop the mistaken impression that you’re in control.”

~ Broken Angels; Richard Morgan 3⭐️’s

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Argh there's so much I could say about this book, so many quotes I'm going to hang onto. But for now, onto the next book of this series.
Which will no doubt be as awesome as this one ❤️