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Darling Girls

by Sally Hepworth (Goodreads Author)

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The Poet Empress

by Shen Tao (Goodreads Author)

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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: reading, writing

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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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“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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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

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“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: anarchy, crime, laws

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