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Don't Let the Forest In

by C.G. Drews (Goodreads Author)

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The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

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There was something novel and wonderful about being in a crowd and not feeling alone.

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“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

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