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Wild Reverence

by Rebecca Ross (Goodreads Author)

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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

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“Never worry about what you are escaping from,” he said. “Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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