Virginia King
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"We could all do with a little more magic in our lives, and whether you are eight or 108, The Emporium of Imagination (Penguin Random House 2021) by Tabitha Bird will calm, enlighten, inspire, thrill, rescue, ignite and magic you into another realm of"
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Lovers of Paranor...: The First Lie by Virginia King | 7 | 41 | Apr 28, 2015 01:36PM | |
Aussie Readers: **Winter Reading Challenge - 1/6/15 - 31/8/15** | 768 | 221 | Aug 31, 2015 07:15PM | |
Australian Women ...: Brenda - Nominate my own goal (100 AWWs) | 214 | 71 | Dec 30, 2015 06:24PM | |
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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about.”
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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
― Rushing to Paradise
― Rushing to Paradise

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