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The Bullet Swallower

by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Goodreads Author)

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I looked at Meleager’s face, browned from the sun, and lifted his hand, the calluses on his palm from the oars matching mine, and I wondered how Persephone felt when she stepped between her two worlds. If, when she came back home, she ever ...more

An Unkindness of Ghosts

by Rivers Solomon

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

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