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The 19th Wife

by David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, cults, southwest, united-states, very-interesting, era-1800s, era-2000s, decade-1870s, decade-2000s, audiobook, 1-adult

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

bookshelves: currently-reading, europe, gothic, 1-adult

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Prom Night for Slasher Victims

by Matthew Mercer (Goodreads Author)

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TJL’s Quotes

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lotr, war

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: hope, inspirational, love

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“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.”
― Dave Barry

tags: babies, humor, men, pregnancy

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