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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess is currently reading

Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)

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In the Great Quiet

by Laura Vogt (Goodreads Author)

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The Dead Room

by Catriona McPherson (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2)

The Strength of the Few (Hierarchy, #2) by James Islington

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Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.

“You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that’s built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.”
― Tana French, The Trespasser

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“I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll. All those idiots on the websites, begging for other people to pull their sagging puppet-strings, turn them real: they make me want to spit.”
― Tana French, The Trespasser

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“the room looks like it was bought through some Decorate Your Home app where you plug in your budget and your favorite colors and the whole thing arrives in a van the next day. In”
― Tana French, The Trespasser

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“Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.”
― Sitting Bull

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“If someone rescues you, they own you. Not because you owe them—you can sort that, with enough good favors or bottles of booze dressed up in ribbons. They own you because you’re not the lead in your story any more. You’re the poor struggling loser/helpless damsel/plucky sidekick who was saved from danger/dishonor/humiliation by the brilliant brave compassionate hero/heroine, and they get to decide which, because you’re not the one running this story, not any more.”
― Tana French, The Trespasser

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