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The Magician's Daughter

by H.G. Parry (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025-reading-challenge, adventure, coming-of-age, fantasy, historical, magical-realism, magic, ya, turn-of-the-century, found-family

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Lovely War by Julie Berry

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“No one can love me,” she says. “No one.” “What do you mean?” “That is the price,” she tells him, “of being the goddess of love.”

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“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

tags: sabbath, sunday-life

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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