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Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)

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Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural

by Davis Grubb

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The Lie Tree

by Frances Hardinge

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Gretchen’s Quotes

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
― Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

tags: friendship, misattributed-a-a-milne

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“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
― charles dickens

tags: honesty

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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth

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“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: gifts, giving

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