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I was lovestruck. Absolutely devastated. I spent the entire night crying alone in my room. There was no way a girl like her—an angel bearing my fiancée’s name—would ever fall in love with a boy like me. Grief consumed me. That was when I
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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