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The Library of Amorlin (The Age of Beasts, #1)

by Kalyn Josephson (Goodreads Author)

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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Daughter of Crows (The Academy of Kindness, #1)

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

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“But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

tags: being-human, normal, ordinary, unique

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“Those who are coerced by force become our enemies, those who succumb to reason become our allies.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

tags: allies, enemies, force, persuasion, power, reasoning

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“There he died; and as thou seest me, saw
I the three fall one by one, between the fifth
day and the sixth: whence I betook me,
already blind, to groping over each, and for
three days called them, after they were dead;
then fasting had more power than grief.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: cannibal-count, canto-xxxiii, double-meaning, fasting, grief, hell, hunger, inferno, starvation, ugolino

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“All good storytellers study psychology ... Novelists, filmmakers, even actors. You have to know the rules of human behavior before you can make your characters break them.”
― Katharine McGee, The Towering Sky

tags: characters, inspiration, psychology, story-telling, writing

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