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Alex Givant

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Alex Givant is currently reading

Абсолютная память (Amos Decker, #1)

by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)

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Parting Shot (Promise Falls #4) by Linwood Barclay

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He…he looks for shortcuts. He’s impatient. The road to success is not a superhighway. It has plenty of bends and detours, and sometimes the bridge gets taken out in a flood. Many of us find another route, even if it takes us hundreds of ...more

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Alex’s Quotes

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

tags: family, home

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“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

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“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

tags: friendship

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“Ребенку скучно играть с готовой игрушкой, которую можно использовать только по какому-то одному назначению. Какая бы дорогая эта игрушка ни была, она не представляет ценности для ребенка, если он не может что-то делать с ней руками или приспособить ее в соответствии со своим богатым воображением.”
― Масару Ибука, После трех уже поздно

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