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Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp #1)

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1)

The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert #1) by Moses Ose Utomi

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It was a twofold price, a price of blood and a price of history: an untongued people cannot tell their story.

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makilah’s Quotes

“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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“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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“Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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