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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

by Mira Grant

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

tags: closeness, family, love

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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

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“No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.”
― Mark Strand, Blizzard of One

tags: fate, life

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“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

tags: death, life

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“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lotr, war

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