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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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read in January 2021

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Midnight Sun (The Twilight Saga, #5)

by Stephenie Meyer

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“He wasn't supposed to die,' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.

Neither are you.

Neither am I.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

tags: death, mortality

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“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: black, choices, harry-potter, inside-us, light, sirius, sirius-black

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“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“For a brief moment I felt as if I might die; and just as quickly I knew everything would be all right.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.”
― Pamela Des Barres, I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

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