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The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig (Goodreads Author)

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“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“There are rare people who will fuel the fire inside of you, who will awaken a dormant passion, who will push you and better you. She alone is my rarity.”
― Krista Ritchie, Fuel the Fire

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Have I ever told you your anger is like my own personal aphrodisiac?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

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“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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