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![この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1357027313l/17200983._SX50_.jpg "この靴しりませんか? [Kono Kutsu Shirimasen ka?] by Fuka Mizutani")
“From that moment on she insisted she would only read romance, as if love and horror could not go hand-in-hand”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And here is the awful thing about belief. It is a current, like compulsion. Hard to forge when it goes against your will, but easy enough when it carries you the way you want to go.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“Did you know,” she would say brightly, “that sometimes I think of the cemetery plot where you will lie, beneath all that dirt and stone, and it brings me joy. And if by some unlucky spot I ever get with child, I will take them there, and let them frolic on your bones.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“one of those grim reminders that your life is small and the world is big, and even when it feels like it’s falling down, it’s only falling down on you. To everyone else, it’s just going on as usual.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
“And as she did, she told her daughter what it meant to be a wife. Gentle. Loving. Obedient. Words that made María tense. And, as if her mother could feel her stiffening, she leaned close and said, “You will learn, it is better to bend than to break.” María stared into the hearth. “Why should I be the one who bends?”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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