Shannon

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Shannon is Currently Reading

Shannon is currently reading

Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan (Goodreads Author)

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May 16, 2026 03:08PM

Shannon’s Quotes

“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

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“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

tags: change, death, forever, life, love, relationships

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“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

tags: language, life, words

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“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”
― David Almond, Kit's Wilderness

tags: david-almond, goodness, kit-s-wilderness, light, seam

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“They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.”
― David Almond, Skellig

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