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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

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Once Upon a Winter's Night (Faery, #1)

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Abby’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection)

Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection) by Penelope Farmer

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all the faces, the voices had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice.

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Abby’s Quotes

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: cynicism, humor, life

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