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Broken Dove (Silver Elite, #2)

by Dani Francis (Goodreads Author)

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

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A Crown This Cold and Heavy (Kingdom of Lies, #3)

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Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows #1) by Devney Perry

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It always made me wonder. What other stories are out there? What if some are true? What if we’ve burned too many books?”

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

tags: bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, sadness, sorrow, words

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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