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"You want to double your business. Who doesn’t, right?"
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Holy hell, she needed to kill someone.
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Later, after supper and evening prayer, and bath if it was bath night, and then the final negotiations to conclude the day (Please Sister can't we stay up a little longer? Please one more story?), when the children had fallen asleep at last and everything had fallen still.

"The Twelve" by Justin Cronin.
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Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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This little book is about junk: the things we fill our lives and occupy our time with, but which provide us with little sustenance; the thoughts and emotions that distract us, cause us and others consternation or trouble, and over which we seem to have no control.

Authenticity by Venerable Yifa
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"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault." --Blood Rites, Jim Butcher (for about the dozenth time lol.)
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I wish Giovanni would kiss me.

eat pray love by elizabeth gilbert
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The fire begins in the basement. - Rooms by Laura Oliver
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"Call me Ishmael. Ishmael Jones."

The Dark Side of the Road
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What is grief, if not love persevering?

Grief is just love with no place to go.
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"I have gret wonder, be this lyght,
How that I lyve, for day ne nyght
I may nat slepe wel nygh noght;
I haveso many an ydel thoght
Purely for defaute of slep
That, by my trouthe, I take no kep
Of nothing, how hyt cometh or gooth,
Ne me nys nothyng leef nor looth."

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Summertime had England in its grip.
- The Paris Secret by Karen Swan
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
- My Home by Clive James
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You pause on the landing, and shake your head free of men. - The Disappeared by Roger Scruton
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"People who become surgeons- particularly neurosurgeons- tend to be risk takers.... Take the risk by Ben Carson
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Four boys, three girls, high and soaring, skin sizzling, tingling under the dizzying stars.

Absent Friends, S J Rozan
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"I looked up because of the laughter, I kept looking because of the girls."

-The Girls by Emma Cline
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