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Helen’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5)

Thick as Thieves (The Queen's Thief, #5) by Megan Whalen Turner

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There is freedom in this life and there is power, and I was ambitious for the latter.

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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Grendel

by John Gardner

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Helen’s Quotes

“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

tags: inspirational

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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

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“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

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“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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