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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."