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“Try to be led by hope, rather than fear”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“It’s strange, she thought, how recipes outlive the people that wrote them and yet they almost bring a part of that person back to life, as if a tiny piece of their soul lives in those instructions.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“Hovering her pencil above the fan of pristine pages, she savoured the musk of fresh paper”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
“To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it.”
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
― Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame
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