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18/25 books read

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ j a n u a r y

• outlawed – anna north
  • “knowledge can be very valuable, but only if people want it. If they don't, it can be worse than useless.”
• ♡ pet – akwaeke emezi
  • "we're alive because we can be hurt; we're alive because we can heal. I think it's beautiful."
• the death of mrs. westaway – ruth ware
  • “you can’t influence fate, or change what’s out of your control. But you can choose what you yourself do with the cards you’re dealt.”

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ f e b r u a r y

• a hundred other girls – iman hariri-kia
  • "life is full of tough divisions. making a choice and sticking with it shows strength of character."
• the family upstairs – lisa jewell
  • "the only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a ‘good book’ for someone."
• on earth as it is on television – emily jane
  • "...if the aliens could peer into the eccentricities of human-run Earth-life and see the absurdly misguided turn it had taken—how could they just keep hovering there, lasers holstered?"
• ♡ it came from the closet – ed. joe vallese
  • "...As long as compulsive heteronormativity exists, queer people will pass through bisexuality at some point, however briefly. Some tear through it on a speedboat, heading for a more monosexual harbor, others circle, content, drinking aperitifs in the sun.”

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ m a r c h

• the house of hades – rick riordan
  • "but magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.”
• ♡ the haunting of hill house – shirley jackson
  • "don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again."
• ♡ this is how it always is – laurie frankel
  • "just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t real,” said Penn. “Made up is the most powerful real there is.”
• the blood of olympus – rick riordan
  • “you can't choose your parentage. But you can choose your legacy.”
• miss peregrine's home for peculiar children – ransom riggs ↻
  • "I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”
• hollow city – ransom riggs ↻
  • "just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
• library of souls – ransom riggs ↻
  • "and it occured to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.”
• a map of days – ransom riggs
  • "our worth is measured by how we treat the people we love."
• the conference of the birds – ransom riggs
  • "you mean more to me than all the birds in the sky and the heavens above them. If you love me, I hope I have deserved it.”
• the desolations of devil's acre – ransom riggs
  • "nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ a p r i l

• the mountain in the sea – ray nayler
  • "we are embedded in habit. We dread the truly new, the truly emergent. We don’t fear the end of the world—we fear the end of the world as we know it."