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A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

by Hafsah Faizal (Goodreads Author)

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“People often learn more from getting an undeserved pass than they would from being punished.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Martin

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― Julie C. Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

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“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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