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Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

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A Demon's Guide to the Afterlife - The Complete Series

by Kel Carpenter (Goodreads Author)

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Milk & Mocha Comics Collection: Our Little Happiness

by Melani Sie

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“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“Oh, what is brighter than the light?
What is darker than the night?
What is keener than an axe?
What is softer than melting wax?

Truth is brighter than the light,
Falsehood darker than the night.
Revenge is keener than an axe,
And love is softer than melting wax.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

tags: bamf, bridget, burning-bright, light, poetry, riddle, song, truth

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“Despondency, is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

tags: despondency, faith

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“A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: burning-bright, power-of-words

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