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Gemma

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“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

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“Why do you hate Christmas?” she whispered. It was not the real question she meant, but much easier to ask than why do you keep leaving me?”
― Erica Ridley, Once Upon a Duke

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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

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“I only said I would stop talking to you, he’d written. I never promised to stop loving you.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter

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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

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