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A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

by V.E. Schwab

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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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