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Adelaide (LiterallyAdele)

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Adelaide is Currently Reading

Adelaide (LiterallyAdele) is currently reading

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

by J.K. Rowling

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Milkman

by Anna Burns

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The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1)

by Agatha Christie

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Adelaide’s Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.”
― Philip Pullman, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

tags: fairy-tales, writing

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“And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

tags: righteousness

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“Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.”
― Anne Holm, I Am David

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“the prognosis for civilization’s survival is grim; as Einstein said after the Japan bombings: “I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.”
― Lesley M.M. Blume, Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

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