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Orval’s Quotes

“How did you explain to someone—how did you explain to a child, a child you loved—that someone they adored was not to be trusted? She”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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“The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. …” OLD TESTAMENT, ECCLESLASTES, 4:2”
― Julie Garwood, Honor's Splendour

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“There is no universe per se. Nor is there a beginning, Big Bang or otherwise. We live in an energy field that recycles quarks, which format with given configurations, because they've done that before.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi, scifi-adventure

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“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

tags: disillusionment, heartbreak

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“Are we going to be stupid?” she whispered.
“Define stupid.”
“Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts.” Or their hearts…
“I want to hear about your favorite body part,” he said. “In great detail.”
― Jill Shalvis

tags: contemporary-romance, funny, hot, humor, romance, sexy

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