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Bring the House Down

by Charlotte Runcie (Goodreads Author)

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The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness

by Hannah Murray

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The Others

by Sheena Kalayil

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Where Nightmares Come From by Eugene Johnson

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Plot, in its purest sense is a kind of clockwork mechanism that arranges pieces of a story together to cause it to frequently arrive at an overly contrived solution, where storytelling is more akin to creating a feeling like real life, even ...more

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Hayley’s Quotes

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: education, future

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“He doesn’t care that the mood was different to begin with because he knows that nothing important ever happens unless he is there to witness it.”
― Claire Oshetsky, Chouette

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“For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.”
― Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel

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“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel

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