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“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
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“Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.”
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“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
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“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
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Oct 09, 2013 06:18PM

Thanks for sending me for a friend request Amelia! If you are addicted to YA as your groups show then I would suggest some of my favorites, Crown Duel is really good and charming, same with The Grisha Trilogy but it takes some getting used to, Clockwork Angel I heartily suggest with the rest and for a classic I've recently read Jane Eyre which I ADORED!

All of this I recommend wholeheartedly!

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