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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

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My Dark Vanessa
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Kate Elizabeth Russell (欧宝娱乐 Author)

ashlyn's review

Aug 03, 2024

it was amazing

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this book is the definition of a masterpiece. literally left me speechless and staring at the wall, it鈥檚 gut wrenching and horrific, please look up the trigger warnings before reading this.

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“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“I can鈥檛 lose the thing I鈥檝e held onto for so long, you know?鈥� My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. 鈥淚 just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.鈥�
鈥淚 know,鈥� she says.
鈥淏ecause if it isn鈥檛 a love story, then what is it鈥�? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. 鈥淚t鈥檚 my life,鈥� I say. 鈥淭his has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else鈥檚 mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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