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Lea’s Notes & Highlights

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

1 highlight

“I guess maybe I don’t want to be warm and safe. I want to live.”

The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle

5 highlights

Lea’s Quotes

“the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

tags: raising-steam

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“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

328 likes

“The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

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“She said not to worry-- that she had done so many things she regretted and perhaps we should both agree that we had sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus in about the year 2000”
― Brian Kimberling

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“The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

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