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Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Daniel Finds a Poem

by Micha Archer

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Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come (Picture Puffins)

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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: description, language, power-of-words, words

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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia

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“Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.”
― Nemo Nox

tags: castle, growth, saving

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“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

tags: library, reading, travel

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“The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.”
― R.A. Lafferty

tags: labeling, labels, political

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