“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
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“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
― My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine
“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Gathering Blue
― Gathering Blue
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