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Skip and Loafer, Vol. 9

by Misaki Takamatsu

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Travelling Light

by Tove Jansson

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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)

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Sugar and Spice (A Very Enby Christmas #1) by Eli Wray

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I am never busy, my heart is yours. No, wait, I meant calendar, my calendar is... who am I kidding, I meant heart.

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“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

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“It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not.
I do not.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water

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“Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: aslan, lion, tame

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