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thesoulofbooks · 3 months

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"Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in."

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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"When you worked a murder investigation, your client was the deceased, mute and cold, but still screaming out for justice. It had to be true, because sometimes if you listened hard enough you could hear them screaming."

— Ian Rankin, Black and Blue

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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"That was the cross that women had to bear; no matter what your children did, they were still your children, and you loved them no matter what."

— Martina Cole, The Family

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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"There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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"Why, she wondered, do we seem unable to speak of the things that matter most"

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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“I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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"People with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts."

— Eoin Colfer, The Supernaturalist

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thesoulofbooks · 4 months

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“We’ll eat, we’ll sleep, and then we see what happens next.”

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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thesoulofbooks · 8 months

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"She had learned to live with a lot of things over the years, and she had also accepted that it wasn't what happened to you, it was how you dealt with it. And she dealt with things as and when they happened now, she didn't let herself get in a state over things she had no control over. It wasn't an ideal life, but it was the best it had been in years, and all because she made a point of not letting herself think too much."

— Martina Cole, The Family

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"Life is not a paragraph and death is no parenthesis."

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"I work on the assumption that there is a secret chemistry in all art; in this case, a reaction between the pigments, the plaster, the temperature, even the spirit of the building. I tell myself that the colour in a fresco is dependent upon the most minute of things; that it is catalyzed by the light of the first onlooker's gaze, by the carbon of their breath, by the speed or calm of their hearts."

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it."

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"Sometimes a story is too big to tell in one breath."

— Eoin Colfer, The Supernaturalist

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"Living like this, the way I’m living at the moment, is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness, when everyone is out and about, being flagrantly, aggressively happy. It’s exhausting, and it makes you feel bad if you’re not joining in."

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"Its amazing how much pain you can feel and still not be dead."

— James Patterson, Alex Cross's Trial

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thesoulofbooks · 1 year

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"Freedom, he understood, came at a terrible cost."

— Alison MacLeod, Unexploded

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