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Addie has said so many hellos, but that was the first and only time she got to say good-bye. That kiss, like a piece of long-awaited punctuation. Not the em dash of an interrupted line, or the ellipsis of a quiet escape, but a period, a closed parenthesis, an end.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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A moment of yielding warmth that generated something infinitely tender and precious, and as fragile as a butterfly’s wing. It was nothing at all like the unrestrained, half-violent passions of the body that Xu Da had described. It felt like something new, something they’d invented themselves. Something that existed only for the two of them, in the penumbral shadow of their little room, for the span of a single kiss.

Chapter 17. Anfeng, Tenth Month

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Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.

Takkan, in chapter twenty-nine

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The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.

page 34, The First Declaration of War, 1917-1939

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