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The Kingmaker (All the King's Men, #1)

by Kennedy Ryan

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“My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

tags: love, romance

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“Is that the coat I bought you? he said.
Yes. I wear it to remind me that you’re real.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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“Tenderly, it seemed almost painfully, they smiled at one another, saying nothing, and their questions were the same, am I the one you think about, when we made love were you happy, have I hurt you, do you love me, will you always.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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“We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”
― Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

tags: desire, life, longing

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