Tag: contemporary fiction
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Blood Orange
“And actions have consequences. I know I keep saying the phrase, but it’s one of my therapist’s favourites, and I think it’s a really good one to bear in mind.”
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The Satsuma Complex
“My mum used to tell me that I was blessed with a good imagination and should use it to my advantage—to relieve any boredom and inject perspective and joy into my life.”
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Really Good, Actually
“It doesn’t have to be some big conspiracy. It doesn’t have to be special. It can be just bad.”
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The Midnight Library
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.”
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This Must Be The Place
“We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.”
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In Memoriam
“You’re not afraid of dying, Henry. You’re just opposed to killing. That isn’t cowardice.”
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A Spell of Good Things
“What is not yours is not yours o, even if you marry the person that has that thing. If it is not yours, it is not yours o.”
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Queen K
Chalet girl meets Below Deck meets the Talented Mr Ripley meets The Great Gatsby… with some Russian billions thrown into the mix.
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Magpie
“Although she should have questioned the underlying implication that home and babies were her sphere while earning the money to keep both afloat was his, she secretly liked it.”
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