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In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow, #1)

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― Honore de Balzac

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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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