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His Butterfly Girl (Love In Grove Point, #1)

by Chelsea M. Newton (Goodreads Author)

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Light Up My Heart

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This Angry Pen of Mine: Recovering the Journals of Layne Staley

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“The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.”
― Clive Barker

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“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

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“I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: inspirational, love, poetry

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“Never run from anything immortal. It only attracts their attention.”
― 19, Psychomotor Agitation: A Vivisection

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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