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Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) by Talia Hibbert

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I know you have a busy life, but you make room for the stuff that matters. If it was worth it, and you wanted to, you could make room for a relationship, too. What you get out of being loved, it’s supposed to be worth the compromise. When ...more

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Isabella’s Quotes

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows

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“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

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“I can bear ugliness, I find the only thing I cannot live with is death.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

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“Everyone's always scared for someone else's generation”
― Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

tags: coming-of-age

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“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken."
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

tags: healing, inspirational, recovery, recovery-from-abuse

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