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The Hunting Wives

by May Cobb (Goodreads Author)

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A Bond Of Darkness And Discord (A Tether Through The Rift Book 2)

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Learn Beginner Portuguese Bundle - Learning Portuguese Like Crazy: Learn Brazilian Portuguese For Beginners - Lessons 1 to 30

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Queen of Myth and Monsters (Adrian X Isolde, #2) by Scarlett St. Clair

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The consequences of disobeying his wishes would never weigh on my conscience as heavily as the deaths of our people.

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Ali’s Quotes

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

tags: self-sacrifice

1966 likes

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers

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“I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted, or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.”
― Bill Bryson, Lost Continent: Travels In Small-Town America

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“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

tags: cynicism, humor

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“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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