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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer's Life

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

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Women Who Light the Dark

by Paola Gianturco

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“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

tags: friendship, love, romance

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

2366 likes

“What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
― Joseph Roux

tags: friendship, love

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“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
― Gloria Naylor

tags: friendship

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Welcome to Good YA Series. This book club is for teens and adults who love to read mostly paranormal young adult book series (as you can tell from the ...more