I did not know when humans pray for nature, they pray for something to control.
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Women can be heroes, too.
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The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.
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Men were always so afraid of tears, of having a hysterical woman on their hands.
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If you expected the present to be a continuation of the past, you weren't actually looking at the present through clear eyes.
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Depraved, disturbing, deranged, & delightful.
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We have been given immense power, and we must use it. To squander it would be wicked especially if we do not use it to right wrongs
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“They came for Manchuria first. They will come for Shanghai next, swallow up the coastal city where they have already been allowed land and law. The empire across the sea is small. And when this is an age of expansion, they will claim that invasion must be performed in self-defense, that it is a necessity while their people grow hungrier, a population with mouths to feed and feet to plant.”
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“That’s ridiculous—I would never kick him onto the sofa,” Juliette replied. “If he ever angers me, a better punishment would be for him to continue sleeping next to me, feeling the power of my wrath.”
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If you shrink yourself to the smallness of your circumstances, you’ll soon disappear.
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Words are our tools of resurrection.
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The story of a century of life.
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Lenna, a young Englishwoman, lives in Paris under the tutelage of Vaudeline D’Allaire - a powerful medium who contacts murder victims to discover the identity of their killers. Lenna travels with Vaudeline under the guise of continued mediumship training, but plans to secretly investigate her own sister, Evie’s, murder.
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But you know what's worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you're not even alive to feel it.
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The Book Spy follows the stories of Tiago in Lisbon and Maria from New Jersey during World War II. When Maria’s path crosses Tiago’s, they form an incredible bond and agree to help each other and end the war.
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People are awkward, they don’t always know what to do or say. Don’t hold it against them. You never know what’s in their hearts.
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The Lost Apothecary tells the story of present-day Caroline and late 1700s Nella. These two women are different, with different problems, but common similarities of troubled relationships and external forces seemingly working against them.
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As the last (barely) surviving member of his household, Robin knows he’s hallucinating when a white man hands him a silver bar that heals him. Under the guardianship of Professor Lovell, Robin is tutored and educated until it’s time for him to begin studying at the prestigious Oxford University. When Robin uncovers a plot for the British to go to war with China, he, and his cohorts, must decide if their allegiances lie with the Crown or with a homeland they never truly knew.
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Following the events in Shanghai with Juliette and Roma, Rosalind Lang is now working for the Nationalists as an assassin fighting both Communists and Imperial Japan. When her new assignment finds her playing house with another agent, Rosalind must find a way to do her job and keep her walls up to protect both national and personal secrets.
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We follow Kaikeyi’s story as she navigates the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchy, being a queen in a foreign land, and being the mother to a difficult child. This beautifully written story is a fresh take on the Ramayana of Hindu storiers and should be on your TBR list.
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