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“Touch her and, and you all will die, have I made myself clear?”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea

“When you love someone, it's like building a library and filling the shelves. It doesn't matter how many years it's been since Austen wrote Emma or Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise. We can still pull them from the bookcases and dive back into the words, the same as they day they were written. All the years and memories are still right there, cataloged inside us.”
― Rachel Moore, The Library of Shadows

“I'll be your best friend for fifty more years. And after that? You have to reapply.”
― Rebecca Hanover, The Similars

“A book was all it ever took to hold him captive.”
― Pascale Lacelle, Curious Tides