Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom #1)
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Read between October 29 - October 31, 2024
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I felt a powerful pang of relief that I wasn’t female. It seemed that being female meant to be prey, even among your own species.
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and one strange naked one that looks like an uncooked chicken.
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I will protect him, even as he continues to mercilessly torture himself by ingesting fruit. There is nothing I can do about that shit.
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I cannot recommend this to you enough: find something that you believe in, right down deep in the depths of your silvery plumage, and then throw your heart at it, blood and valves and veins and all.
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“Survivor,” but she told me she didn’t like it much. I asked her why and she said because she is a female and all females are survivors so it was massively redundant.
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Trust, it turned out, was a very beautiful and fragile thing with a taste like wild raspberries and experienced only by the very brave.
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Sometimes you can feel two very different things at once—both searing pain and joy, feelings as deep as the ocean.
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remembered how Pressa told me that all females are survivors and you are no exception.
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And my big journey, the one I slowly tell you as a bedtime story—along with The Hobbit because that’s a goddamned classic—is how I know what I’ve told you is true.