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My Big Green Alien Orc (Starlight Monsters, #1)

by Skye MacKinnon (Goodreads Author)

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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aoife★’s Quotes

“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

tags: first-sentence, literature

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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

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“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

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“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

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