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Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)

by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2014-releases, reviewed-2023, ya-fantasy-contemporary, ya-paranormal, ya, rated-4-stars, currently-reading

read in October 2023

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mads said: " "Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die in ...more "

Oct 05, 2023 10:17PM · see review

mads’s Quotes

“You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

tags: circumstances, history, humans, life, personality, soul, time

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“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: love, passion

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“There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: self-sacrifice

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