Maddie

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Maddie is Currently Reading

Maddie is currently reading

Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney (Goodreads Author)

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The Skylark's Secret

by Fiona Valpy (Goodreads Author)

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Way Station

by Clifford D. Simak

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Maddie’s Quotes

“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: risks

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“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

tags: love

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“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

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“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

tags: art

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