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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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Common Goal (Game Changers, #4)

by Rachel Reid

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The Last Woman on Earth (The Devil at the End #1)

by Bex Benjamin (Goodreads Author)

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Valarie’s Quotes

“The last time I felt alive – I was looking into your eyes.
Breathing your air…. touching your skin…
… Saying goodbye….
The last time I felt alive…. I was dying.”
― Ranata Suzuki

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“There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not.
You’re just sick of the tunnel.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems

tags: beautiful, blood, kiss, life, love, mouth, museums, parks

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“We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
― Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin

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