The Butterfly Garden  (The Collector, #1)
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Read between August 16 - August 18, 2025
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You learn things over time, and that was one of the biggest things I learned about him. He wanted to find more joy in life than he did.
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Some wanted the freedom to be anyone they wanted, some of us wanted the freedom to be left alone.
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Beauty loses its meaning when you’re surrounded by too much of it. “So, this is the new girl.” She flopped down on the bed, hugging a small pillow to her chest. “What’d the bastard name you?”
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“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
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“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
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The trouble with sociopaths, really, is that you never know where they draw their boundaries.
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Yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, or in none, is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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Three butterflies for a broken girl: one for personality, one for possession, and one for pettiness.