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Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Goodreads Author
Born
The United States
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
May 2013
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I Thirst (The Veritas Chronicles, #1)
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2013
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The Rose and the Sword (The Veritas Chronicles, #2)
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2016
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4 editions
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Peter (The Veritas Chronicles, #3)
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Prince of Chandeliers
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Finding the Garden: A Reflection on the Joy and Wonder Found Beyond Suffering and Pain
I have never been one to go for the "happiness is a choice" mantra because I feel that it minimizes pain and suffering—but I do think that it is possible to find the wildest and most beautiful of joys in very difficult circumstances.
I understand pain well. Much more than some may assume when observing me and my wonderstruck ways.
But my wonder and joy are not naive.
Nor are they fake.
They are True Read more of this blog post »
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Thanks so much for the kind words, Leslea! I'm glad that you enjoyed PRINCE OF CHANDELIERS. :)
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Thank you so much for the beautiful review! I'm honored by your words and thrilled that you enjoyed PRINCE OF CHANDELIERS on such a high level. Thank
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Thanks so much! 😊 Great to hear that you're loving I THIRST so far and enjoying the mixture of the goofy and the poetic. 😁 I'm honored and glad that y
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As riddles swim past rivers of glass I will capture honey air To breathe in pathways without names.” Gina Marinello-Sweeney |
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“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.”
― I Thirst
― I Thirst
“Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown.”
― The Rose and the Sword
― The Rose and the Sword
“As for clichés, they’re an illusion. When you think about it, anything could be considered a cliché. It’s when you really bring truth to something that it becomes original…which may," he smiled wryly, "itself be considered a cliché.”
― I Thirst
― I Thirst
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“The men of the East may spell the stars,
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“As for clichés, they’re an illusion. When you think about it, anything could be considered a cliché. It’s when you really bring truth to something that it becomes original…which may," he smiled wryly, "itself be considered a cliché.”
― I Thirst
― I Thirst
“And, as I had gazed at my surroundings, at the muted, yet triumphant, colors splashed in joyful serenity over the immaculate stone floor, at the profiles of my fellow parishioners bent in prayer, and finally, up above, at the flickering lights held in a soft gray ceiling like chandeliers in an ancient palace, I realized that my thoughts had been transferred to Someone Else.”
― I Thirst
― I Thirst
“Even the sublime portal, half of a circlet the color of the first snow, knew their names.”
― I Thirst
― I Thirst
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