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The Dead Room

by Catriona McPherson (Goodreads Author)

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

by Dot Hutchison

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Valerie’s Quotes

“Fathers should make you feel safe.”
― Karen Cushman, The Loud Silence of Francine Green

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“Chase your passion, not your pension.”
― Denis Waitley

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“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
― Denis Waitley

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“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
― Lydia Maria Child

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“Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.”
― Erin Hanson

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