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Cartel’s Captive

by N. Viktoria

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Book cover for The Elven (The Saga of the Elven, #1)

The Elven (The Saga of the Elven, #1) by Bernhard Hennen

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‘Choose your kinfolk for yourself. Pay no heed to your reputation. Everything you are is within you.’”

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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

tags: foolishness, rationality, reason, sense, stupidity, understanding

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

tags: life

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"The Senate and the People of Rome". Why not form a group for everyone interested in the Roman Republic/Empire? We can recommend books to each other a ...more

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If you have a GR account, you probably already know that Reading Is Fun. So, what I'd like to do in this group is increase the amount of fun for you. ...more