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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

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Book cover for The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

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had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose. His arms

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“In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

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“There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.”
― Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare

tags: choices

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“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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“There are moments when everything shifts, when the world becomes eerily like the kaleidoscope toy given to children, where with the turn of a cheap plastic knob everything changes, becomes different. Fiona looked at the man in front of her and the calm of downtown Portsmouth disappeared; the colors changed; the air smelled different. Everything flew upward, scattered, and landed again.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

tags: epiphany, realization

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“You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

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