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The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1)

by Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
― Stephen King, Storm of the Century

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― Lillian Hellman

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― Steve Martin

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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