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The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)

by Elizabeth Chadwick (Goodreads Author)

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“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin

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“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton

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“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”
― Ronald Reagan

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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