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53/25 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."
• not your china doll: the wild and shimmering life of anna may wong – katie gee salisbury
  • "my philosophy of life is contained in that beautiful expression of lao-tze: 'to meet the good with goodness: to meet the bad also with goodness,'...i believe life should be met as it comes, without trying to shirk the responsibilities and sufferings that are inevitable. no, i'm not entirely a fatalist. the passive attitude of leaving all to fare is wrong, for one must deserve his happiness and work for it."
• big little lies – liane moriarty
  • "those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day."
• pretty girls – karin slaughter
  • "people did not change their basic, core personalities. their values tended to stay the same."
• anxious people – fredrik backman
  • "we don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ m a y

• ♡ on our best behavior: the seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good – elise loehnan
  • "knowing we were still connected did not end my grief...but having him on the other side tethered me to something much larger."
• we used to live here – marcus kliewer
  • "voluntary exposure is the best way to overcome fear."
• ♡ the shining – stephen king ↻
  • "sometimes human places create inhuman monsters."
• ♡ remarkably bright creatures – shelby van pelt
  • "you can't fix someone who is determined to stay broken."
• ♡ doctor sleep – stephen king ↻
  • "life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ j u n e

• green dot – madeleine gray
  • "sometimes the best thing you can do with a day is leave it behind and then start again tomorrow."
• pay the piper – daniel kraus, george a. romero
  • "all the children say she got the voice of an angel. Pretty rare thing in this here sewer, where all we got is us devils."
• the rabbit hutch – tess gunty
  • "in general, she feels too much or too little, interacts too much or too little -- never the right amount. It seems to her that she's spent her whole life sitting in a laundromat, freaking people out."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ j u l y

• the summer that melted everything – tiffany mcdaniel
  • "being the devil made him important. made him visible. and isn't that the biggest tragedy of all? When a boy has to be the devil in order to be significant?"
• ♡ first-time caller – b.k. borison
  • "i like that. thinking that I’m worth paying attention to. something ordinary made extraordinary by the person you’re sharing it with."
• my sister, the serial killer – oyinkan braithwaite
  • "the most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. they force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
• the list – yomi adegoke
  • "the quest for good is a marathon and not a sprint; it is measured over years, not fleeting moments; over failures and missteps and, of course, successes."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ a u g u s t

• bright young women – jessica knoll
  • "time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do and it's a messy one at that."
• a cosmology of monsters – shaun hamill
  • "...life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness."
• a council of dolls – mona susan power
  • "the point is that even in difficult times, see how the light is always working to come in. don’t forget to notice."
• ♡!!! kindred – octavia e. butler
  • “I lost an arm on my last trip home.”
• ♡ carrie – stephen king
  • "they were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil."
• ♡ how to sell a haunted house – grady hendrix
  • "these stuffed animals were how she had first learned to love something that couldn’t always love you back."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ s e p t e m b e r

• the hidden oracle – rick riordan
  • "we only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be."
• idol – louise o'neill
  • "she knew there was nothing more powerful than a woman finally given permission to scream."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ o c t o b e r

• the birdcage library – freya berry
  • "The highest form of love is indistinguishable from liberty."
• the outsiders – s.e. hinton ⁑
  • "i loved the country. i wanted to be out of towns and away from excitement."
• the dark prophecy – rick riordan
  • "every living deserves a chance to grow.”
• ♡ the black flamingo – dean atta ⁑
  • "remember, you have the right to be proud; remember, you have the right to be you.”
• ♡ a kind of spark – elle mcnicoll ⁑
  • "it's so confusing. To be too much for some people and not enough for everyone else."
• i have some questions for you – rebecca makkai
  • "walk into any place like you belong, and you will."
• the hole – hye-young pyun
• ♡! bitter – akwaeke emezi
  • "you are allowed to feel safe."

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘ ⠀ n o v e m b e r

• heartstopper volume 1 – alice oseman ⁑
• allow me to introduce myself – onyi nwabineli