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Of Darkness and Light (The Bound and the Broken, #2)

by Ryan Cahill (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 19, 2025 09:14AM

“It was a choice between comfortable misery and terrifying uncertainty… professor Cake had given him a choice – a gift that no one had ever offered him before” 68”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

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“Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others...”
― N.D. Wilson, Dandelion Fire

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“A boy your age should know better than to consider anything impossible.” (p 62)”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

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“Yes," Ba said sadly, "it is impossible. But it is not ridiculous.”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

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“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

tags: childrens, poetry

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