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Taming the Star Runner

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The Book of Lost Hours

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Strangers and Sojourners by Michael D. O'Brien

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My tyrant sister has driven me here to complete the prescribed reading, as tomorrow there is an examination. I loathe examinations. They prove simply nothing, only that it is possible, after all, to mould another into the shape of one’s ...more

Last Christmas in Paris

by Hazel Gaynor

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Emily’s Quotes

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick

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“The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.”
― Rangeya Raghav

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“You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”
― Michel Onfray

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“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

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“And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger—simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible

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