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The Wheel on the School

by Meindert De Jong

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

by Alix E. Harrow (Goodreads Author)

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Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal

by Olivie Blake (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Quotes

“All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: mothers

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“You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

tags: minotaurs, reality, wisdom

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“If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: woman

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“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
― Matsuo Bashō

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“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

tags: hope

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