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The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1) by Naomi Novik

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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand...there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
― JRR Tolkien

tags: frodo, frodo-baggins, lord-of-the-rings, the-return-of-the-king

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“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

tags: bereavement, dream, greek, grief, loss, mourning, shadow, tragedy

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“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: book-quotes, fantasy, lotr, tolkien

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