August

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August’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (4)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1078)
did-not-finish‎ (34)
kindle-unlimited‎ (511)
contemporary‎ (227)
fantasy‎ (183)
audiobook‎ (161)
why-choose-rh-polyamory‎ (139)
age-gap‎ (132)
cheating-ow-om-drama‎ (131)
abduction-kidnapping-captivity‎ (119)

dark-romance‎ (111)
paranormal‎ (100)
mafia‎ (93)
shifters‎ (82)
fae‎ (80)
historical-romance‎ (76)
fated-mates‎ (75)
audio-single-narrator‎ (72)
enemies-to-lovers‎ (67)
skimmed‎ (66)
vampires‎ (63)
marriage-of-convenience-or-arranged‎ (61)

witches‎ (54)
college‎ (44)
forbidden-taboo‎ (41)
omegaverse‎ (39)
scifi‎ (39)
demons‎ (38)
apocalyptic-dystopian‎ (37)
dragons-wyvern‎ (34)
classics‎ (31)
gods‎ (31)
5-star‎ (30)
audio-dual-narration‎ (30)

bdsm‎ (27)
found-family‎ (26)
stalking-spying‎ (25)
office-workplace‎ (24)
audio-duet-narration‎ (22)
mc‎ (20)
mystery-thriller‎ (20)
aliens‎ (19)
fairytale-retelling‎ (19)
historical-fiction‎ (19)
second-chance‎ (19)
sports‎ (18)

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“You never know when it will be the last time you'll see your father, or kiss your wife, or play with your little brother, but there's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

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“So many mistakes in the end,” he choked out. “Never you.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

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“You try to blunt certain emotions, but your tool isn’t a scalpel, it’s a sledgehammer. And you’re blunting all of them. To protect yourself from feeling the horrible things, you prevent yourself from feeling some of the positive things.”
― Ariel Leve, An Abbreviated Life

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“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: grief

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