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Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

by Devney Perry (Goodreads Author)

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Shannon ’s Quotes

“It's a snake, then.'

'Rattler?'

'Most likely.'

I was taking this extremely well. 'We have to kill it. By we, of course, I mean you. I'll stand here and scream.”
― Gini Koch, Touched by an Alien

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“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
― Judith Butler

tags: book-love, book-reading, books, reading

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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

tags: clary-fray, demons, growing-up, humor, jace-wayland, luke, teenager

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“We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.”
― Gini Koch, Touched by an Alien

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