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The Red King (Star Trek: Titan, #2)

by Andy Mangels

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Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)

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The Holy Bible: King James Version

by Anonymous

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“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

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“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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