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“I won’t lie, it scares the dickens out of me to be outside when the lightning starts flashing its light-up-the-sky daggers,”

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Book:A Stone's Throw: A heartwarming story of a city girl and her rancher grandfather turning adversity into love and community
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“There are thresholds in life where one must leap willingly into the abyss, trusting that wings will sprout from one's shoulders. After all, without the courage to leave behind the safety of the familiar, one can never hope to chart new territory or forge one's own path.”

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Book:The New Year’s Tale from Kaironeth: Queen Adelia, Polina, and the Guardians of Time and Seasons
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“Kendalyn: “New rule: no dying. It makes my unicorn cry.”— My Twelve-Year-Old Wife “Courage isn’t louder than fear; it just moves first.” — My Twelve-Year-Old Wife “Anger feels like control until it starts steering.” — My Twelve-Year-Old Wife”

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Book:My Twelve-Year-Old Wife: Across Timelines, Some Loves Refuse to Die
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“...but just four years later, in June 1977, I was to find a pair of Buff-collared Nightjars on territory in the lower canyon... By the time that happened, the Tuscon Five would be only a memory. Ironically, it was I, the transient, who was the only one to wind up living in Tuscon later. The other four scattered to the four different states, and after that May of 1973, never again would all five of us get together. But the brief life span of our little gang was a golden time - a time of discovery and wonder, a time when so many of the birds were still elusive and mysterious to us, a time that would never come again.”

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Book:Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
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“The two of us locked up our own little secrets from the real world. We had experienced countless sleepless nights when we would share our fears, our worries, and our passions; when we would gossip about the school and the other girls. We had played too many pranks and snuck out more than enough times to be expelled if the teachers ever found out. We were professionals at the art of being discreet; however, we had never found sneaking out of a residence necessary, especially when the reason was not to play a prank.”

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Book:Thorns in the Shadow
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“There was a sudden flash of lightning which brightly illuminated our faces. I squinted against the harsh light. It was soon followed by the crack of thunder. The strong wind whipped our hair around our faces, and the younger girls squealed as they quickly ran across the grass to get inside the school. Rose and I sat up, smiles on our faces as we listened to the weather’s dangerous melody. The third flash of lightning finally ripped open the sky’s belly. Freezing rain cascaded out, drenching us in a matter of seconds, the flower garlands drooping and lying limp on our matted hair.”

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Book:Thorns in the Shadow
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“As she was putting her boots on Daisy threw a barb over her shoulder that struck Connie right in the middle of her chest. ‘Grow up, Connie! This place is not for faint-hearted romantics!”

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Book:From Manchester to the Arctic: Nurse Sanders embarks on an adventure that will change her life
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“When are you going to get a fella?" Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. "I have one who wants to take me kissing, but I think I should wait for you to have one." Rose flushes. "I don't think I'll ever have a fella." "Why not?" Lily bristles. "We're plenty pretty." "I don't like the look of them," Rose says. Lily purses her lips at the dance floor, appraising. After a moment long, Rose says, "Any of them." Lily looks at her a long time, as Rose tries not to hyperventilate. Then Lily shrugs and says, "Well, then it's you who should have learned to lead, isn't it?" and when Rose clasps Lily's hand, she clasps it back. It's the closest they've ever been.”

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Book:The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
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“When people ask me if I have any siblings I say, 'One, an older brother,' but that’s not the truth. I have a sister, or at least I had a sister one summer years ago. The one thing I remember most about that summer is my sister’s 'f**k me eyes.' Not that I knew what that meant, or that I would have thought of that as a description of my sister, but her 'f**k me eyes' were the reason that she lived with us, and the reason that she left.” Flirty Eyes”

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Book:The Cuckoo's Song
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“I’m trying to be an adult. I’m trying to be responsible. I’m trying not to call home crying. But it’s hard. It’s hard when every morning feels like a hangover. It’s hard when I hear voices every time I go to sleep. It’s hard when the only thing that would make me feel better is to crawl in bed with the one person who truly knows me, but I’m more afraid of her than the bears or the perverts or whoever the hell visits her when I’m away.”

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Book:Fallout Dreams
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“She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful smile. She reached out with her small hand, and I gripped her tiny fingers as I let go of the pain and sank deeper into the lake.”

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Book:Thorns in the Shadow
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“We rode through the suburbs, the ticking of our gears the only sound. I'd rarely been out this late, and never without my parents. Everything lay in a wrap of shadows. I felt an ownership of the night, and perhaps a whole world that didn't exist in daytime. We cut down a path tapering through the woods. The forest was alive with movement...”

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Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club
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“The law might not recognize it, but fifteen‘s a girl and sixteen a woman, and you get no map from one land to the next. They air-drop you in, booting a bag of Kissing Potion lip gloss and off-the-shoulder blouses after you. As you‘re plummering, trying to release your parachute and grab for that bag at the same time, they holler out "your are pretty", like they‘re giving you some sort of gift, some vital key, but really, it‘s meant to distract you from yanking your cord. Girls who land broken are easy prey. If you‘re lucky enough to come down on your feet, your instincts scream to bolt straight for the trees. You drop your parachute, pluck that bag from the ground (surely it contains something you need), and run like hell, breath tight and blood pounding because boys-who-are-men are being air-droped here, too. Lord only knows what got loaded into their bags, but it does not matter because they do terrible things in packs, boys-who-are-men, things they‘d never have the hate to do alone...we were racing to survive the open-field sprint from girl to woman.”

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Book:The Quarry Girls
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“We were girls in plaid skirts, loud and obnoxious, driving with the windows down. Capable students, nailing honor roll every year, despite our reputation. We were good kissers, decent dancers, fast with our hands. Desperate and dangerous. A little loose, sure. But desirable. Everyone knew. We were the girls who thought we were nothing if not this: a force, a flame, a million nerve ends electric with appetite and not afraid.”

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Book:Whores on the Hill
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“He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.”

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Author:Jennifer Elisabeth
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“In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.”

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Author:Jennifer Elisabeth
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“I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.”

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Author:Jennifer Elisabeth
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“I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?”

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Author:Jennifer Elisabeth
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“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…”

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Book:Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
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“I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.”

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Author:Jennifer Elisabeth
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