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๐ŸŽฎ Played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney โ€” Trials and Tribulations.

I really like how they tied everything together and wrapped it all up in this one.

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “Maybe that was the secret truth of courage. You didn’t face danger; you just got used to it.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

My kid is 10 today. I still haven’t found the guts to write my birth story. I’m so proud of the kind, clever, funny person he’s becoming.

Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo ๐Ÿ“š

A re-read. I just love Leigh Bardugo’s work. So. Much.

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “He’d been washed up on a familiar shore, but the sea had changed him.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “You had to decide who you were willing to go to war for and who you trusted to jump into the fray for you. That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

You know what word academics in the social sciences and humanities love? Bricolage.

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “She’d never liked that phrase, diamond in the rough. All that meant was they had to cut you again and again to let the light in.” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfiedโ€”for revelation, for transformationโ€”and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?” Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

๐ŸŽง๐Ÿ—จ๏ธ “We don’t need to feel good to feel magical.” Lindsay Mack, “MONTHLY MEDICINE: October is Magic as Refuge,” Tarot for the Wild Soul