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"The Master held his body hunched as he scrutinized the
pitiful people" - Unbalanced by Courtney Shepard.
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"Who wouldn't be skeptical when a man claims to have spent an entire weekend with God, in a shack no less?"

The Shack - WM. Paul Young

Great read so far :D
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I was the anniversary of something bad.
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--Over there!--I say.

From Quiet Chaos by Sandro Veronesi

It was translated from Italian to English do some of the punctuation seems a bit off to me... but still a pretty good read!
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"He's come to clean me out."

The Last to See Me: A Novel by M Dressler
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"Well, that had been a waste of an hour."

Just For Now (Escape to New Zealand: Book Three) - Rosalind James
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'One night in the smoky hut of Aketch, a child was born.' From "The River and the Source" by Margaret Ogola.
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I hate the girl with the parrot on her shoulder.

Snapped, Pamela Klaffke
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Everyday for hundreds of years the goddess visited Hell and everyday Geryon had watched her from his station

Into The Dark By Gena Showalter
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." -
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"The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant."
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I just started Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.

"Context is everything."

I dig it
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London.

Bleak House, Charles Dickens
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