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Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen, #1)

by John Gwynne (Goodreads Author)

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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

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“Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.”
― Amy Winehouse

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“They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.”
― Tom Waits

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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

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