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The Cinnamon Spice Inn (Maple Falls, #1)

by Harper Graham

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The Bewitching

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The Witch of Portobello

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She talked about an experiment with two plants growing together and how it was possible for the cells of the individual plants to end up gathering meaningful amounts of DNA from the other. It was fascinating. I listened, transfixed. She ...more

The Berry Pickers

by Amanda Peters

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The Soulmate

by Sally Hepworth

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Laryssa’s Quotes

“He was summer and she was fall. He was adventure and she was comfort. But right now, on the cusp between the two seasons, in this liminal space they'd carved out for themselves, they fit just right.”
― Laurie Gilmore

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“Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learn
To live with both sides of the same coin
and see the light in the darkness.
The world is Beautiful ugly,
relationships are Beautiful ugly,
and life is Beautiful ugly.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

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“We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly

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“But dreams are dreams."
"Oh no, no," he said, and smiled at me. "Dreams are so much more than that. They are visions of the future, they are whispers of our desires, they are hope. We cannot and we must not live without dreams, Clara.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration

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“Memory is a wicked thing that warps and twists. But paper and ink receive the truth without emotion, and they read it back without partiality. That, I believe, is why so few women are taught to read and write. God only knows what they would do with the power of pen and ink at their disposal.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

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