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Home Before Dark

by Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)

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Meet the Newmans

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

tags: inspiration, life, whimsy

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“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: government, laws, magic, spells, words

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