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Elaine Is Reading: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde > Chapter 8 – Part 2
As far as I'm concerned, Chapter 8 is the absolute best chapter in the entire book. This is also where the story pretty much comes to a very abrupt end.
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Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
I. LOVE. THIS. BOOK. I. LOVE. THIS. CHARACTER. I. LOVE. THIS. NARRATOR.
A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
The book is BRILLIANT and it speaks to me on so many levels that no other book has.
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Essays
On Selfishly Surviving …
𝙄’𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣. I don’t do things out of the goodness of my heart. I do them because I selfishly value my own life and sanity over others. I learned SURVIVAL skills because I had no choice.
TLDR; stop complaining …
Passions do not solve or evolve anything. Passions only maintain and imprison.