Alexa Mackintosh

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Alexa Mackintosh is a book dragon at heart. She is the author of Black Forest, self-published at age fifteen, followed by its sequel Hollow Dreams. Her third novel, City of Deception, releases June 1, 2017. When she’s not starstruck over a fictitious guy she found in the pages of her favorite novels, she is destroying worlds or trying to be a normal, real person. She also owns 1/56th of a star. She currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.
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Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Anton Chekhov
“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
Anton Chekhov

Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mae West
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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