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The Eight by Katherine Neville

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I think the author is confused, haha. Julian Calendar is alwayssss behind the Gregorian.

“Life isn't given to be deserved. It's given to be lived. If you can find one thing that makes it worth seeing another day, then you've done all you're meant to do.”
― Roseanne A. Brown, A Psalm of Storms and Silence

tags: life

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“You've met our guards." He gestured at the silent cylindrical guide. "The secret warriors: the binja.”
― China Miéville, Un Lun Dun

tags: clever, delightful, humor

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“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”
― Dean Koontz

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“It did not
kill me and
it did not
make me stronger.

It simply was
and always will
be scorched upon
my heart.”
― d.j.

tags: broken, kill-me, love, scarred, simple, stronger, weak

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“call God the Great Architect, because the first thing He designed was sound,” Bach replied. “‘In the Beginning was the Word,’ you remember? Who knows? Perhaps it was not only a word. Perhaps it was music. Maybe God sang an endless canon of His own invention, and through it, the universe was wrought.”
― Katherine Neville, The Eight

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