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Blackheart Knights by Laure Eve

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the world’s calmest aneurysm

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“There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.”
― Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
― Mark Twain

tags: open-mindedness, travel

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“If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme”
― Mary Hoffman, City of Masks

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“We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.”
― Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers

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“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)”
― Michelangelo

tags: learning

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