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Beth is Currently Reading

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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

by Sangu Mandanna (Goodreads Author)

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The Pact

by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)

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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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Beth’s Quotes

“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter

tags: beauty, madonna, queen, statues

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“Four generations of women--"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself--heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out.”
― Roddy Doyle, A Greyhound of a Girl

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.”
― Clare Balding, My Animals and Other Family

tags: animals, autobiography, love, soulmates

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“Loyaute me lie - Loyalty Binds Me”
― Philippa Gregory, The Kingmaker's Daughter

tags: latin, loyalty, motto

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