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A Berry Bad Neighbor (Meet Me on Main Street Book 1)

by Erin Lucy (Goodreads Author)

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Echo Point Mysteries: Books 1–3: A Cozy Paranormal Mystery Collection with a Talking Cat and Coastal Secrets (Haunted Echo Point Cozy Mysteries)

by Edith Ellis

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Mel’s Quotes

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

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