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What Is Remembered Lives: Developing Relationships with Deities, Ancestors & the Fae

by Phoenix LeFae (Goodreads Author)

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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

by Kathleen Ragan

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Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

by Martin Shaw (Goodreads Author)

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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1) by Caleb Carr

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We’re all still running, according to Kreizler—in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil household doors, ...more

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Matt’s Quotes

“When I was younger I used to think that if I could hug myself tight enough I could make myself smaller, because there was never enough room for me, at home or anywhere, but if I was smaller then I would fit in.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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“Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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“The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

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