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Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack) is currently reading

Swordcrossed

by Freya Marske (Goodreads Author)

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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

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― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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― Doug Wright, Quills

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