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“I had plans, Karolina, and I chose power over love.”
― Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
― Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes
“A lone, dark-skinned foreigner would raise a red flag. The cops would never admit to racial profiling, but it is real in this lily-white neighborhood.”
― Westwind Secrets
― Westwind Secrets
“There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.”
― Julie of the Wolves
― Julie of the Wolves
“Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.”
― Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
― Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
“What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
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Lakeesha’s 2024 Year in Books
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