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A Quiet Kind of Thunder
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2017
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Beautiful Broken Things (Beautiful Broken Things, #1)
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2016
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Goodbye, Perfect
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2018
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Floored
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2018
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Fierce Fragile Hearts (Beautiful Broken Things, #2)
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2019
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Destination Anywhere
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2021
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Where the Light Goes
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2023
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Something Certain, Maybe (Beautiful Broken Things, #3)
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2022
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One Christmas in Reading (Beautiful Broken Things, #1.5)
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This book would have made a better essay. This was a misfire for me. The tone was just really, really off. It was like it couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. For me, it overall came off as something like adolescent wish-fulfillment soft porn, ...more |
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Brilliant storytelling as always, zoomed through this. Shame about the audio narrator's terrible British accents, but that's not the book's fault. (Think Ross's bad British accent in Friends, except not done for comedy.) As with any thriller, best no ...more |
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“Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.”
― A Quiet Kind of Thunder
― A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“But people we love come and go, Caddy. That doesn’t mean we loved them any less at the time.”
― Beautiful Broken Things
― Beautiful Broken Things
“Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head.”
― A Quiet Kind of Thunder
― A Quiet Kind of Thunder
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“It’s awful, telling it like this, isn’t it? As though we didn’t know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It’s like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she’ll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don’t die this time!' But they always do.”
― Code Name Verity
― Code Name Verity
“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”
― Rose Under Fire
― Rose Under Fire
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close