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Books read in 2017: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley

‘Are you going to enlighten me about London now? What’s there? What’s so damn important?’

‘A friend, like I said.’

‘There isn’t.’

‘He hasn’t met me yet.’

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Books read in 2017:  Ice crypt (Mermaids of Eriana Kwai #2) by Tiana Warner

I’d always loved Meela the way she was, and I wouldn’t have changed anything about her — but seeing her as a mermaid awoke something new inside me. We were the same, now. We could have a life together. I wanted to kiss Meela right there in front of everyone.

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Books read in 2017: Dreadnought by April Daniels

I see a world that is terrified of me. Terrified of someone who would reject manhood. Terrified of a girl who knows who she is and what she’s capable of. They are small, and they are weak, and they will not hurt me ever again. My name is Danielle Tozer. I am a girl. No one is strong enough to take that from me anymore.

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Books read in 2017:  Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab

There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead. It didn’t have teeth or claws, didn’t feed on flesh or blood or hearts. It simply reminded you of what happened when you let people in.

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Books read in 2017:   Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 

And when Holly was long gone, soaring beneath the hallway’s ancient oak beams, Artemis said, ‘I don’t like lollipops.’

It was a woefully inadequate response, and Artemis was instantly appalled with himself. Pathetic really: I don’t like lollipops. No self-respecting criminal mastermind would be caught dead even using the word lollipops. He really would have to put together a database of witty responses for occasions such as this.

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Books read in 2017:  Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

“Knowing you is a lot better than just the idea of you, you know. Like the whole thing you do at school with the… intimidatingly smart and glaring at everyone, but you’re a huge marshmallow underneath.”

Abby snorts. “I am not a marshmallow. You’re the marshmallow.” She pokes Jess in the shoulder.

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Books read in 2017: Release by Patrick Ness

Adam suddenly felt like he was falling, like the centre of the bed beneath him had opened up and he had tumbled through, leaving Linus on the lip, looking down on him, too far to reach. All the time. He felt like this all the time. That everyone up there was out of reach. Linus, even Angela sometimes, definitely his family.

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Books (re)read in 2017:  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

And then Bram stretches his legs forward and pushes his knee into mine. Which means the rest of the period is pretty much devoted to staring at Bram’s knee. There’s a place where his jeans are fraying, and a tiny patch of brown skin is barely visible between the fibers of the denim. And all I want to do is touch it. At one point, Bram and Garrett both turn to look at me, and I realize I’ve just sighed out loud.

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Books read in 2017:  Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

I just sort of want to say something before we continue. You probably think that Aled Last and I are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and I am a girl. I just wanted to say – We don’t. That’s all.

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Books read in 2017: The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson

I wade across the dance floor, scouring the bobbing heads for his. As the chorus kicks in, I swear under my breath. I turn round in a slow circle. He’s got to be here somewhere. Then I see him, fighting his way across the dance floor towards me. I break into a grin and push my way through the crowd. We collide in the middle of the dance floor.

‘It’s your song!’ I yell.

‘No it isn’t,’ Leo yells back. ‘It’s ours.’

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Books read in 2017: A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic trilogy), V. E. Schwab

Kell returned the drink to Lila’s hand and then frowned as he noticed Alucard. His brother pointedly ignored the captain’s presence and poured himself a very large glass. “What are we drinking to?”

“The living,” said Rhy.

“The dead,” said Alucard and Lila at the same time.

“We’re being thorough,” added Rhy.

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Books read in 2017: You know me well, Nina LaCour & David Levithan

It was always just me. It was always just you. We thought we were special, but we were always the subjects of two separate sentences.  

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Books read in 2017: The Princess Saves Herself In This One, Amanda Lovelace

- women are some kind of magic

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Books read in 2017: Welcome to Night Vale a Novel, Joseph Fink

“I pawned that tear to you all those weeks ago for a reason. And I don’t know what that reason was. Everything I do is for a reason, and I know none of them. Everything makes sense, and the sense is hidden from me. We live in a pattern that we’ll never detect, and that will shuffle us through invisible hierarchies to the actual death of us. We are together on this. And I don’t know why, and I never will, and we just are.”

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Books read in 2017: I’ll give you the sun, Jandy Nelson

Knowing I only have one shot to get it right with this tool, I wrap the cord around my shoulder, position the circular saw between Noah’s shoulder and my own, and turn on the power. The tool roars to life. My whole body vibrates with electricity as I split the rock in two. So that NoahandJude becomes Noah and Jude.

“You kill them?” Guillermo says in disbelief. “No, I saved them.” Finally.

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Books read in 2017: This Savage Song, V. E. Schwab ( @veschwab )

“I don’t want to be a monster.” “You’re not,” she said, the words automatic, but as she said it, Kate realized that she believed it, too. He was a Sunai—nothing was going to change that—but he wasn’t evil, wasn’t cruel, wasn’t monstrous. He was just someone who wanted to be something else, something he wasn’t. Kate understood the feeling.