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““Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.””

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“Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.”

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“I care as much as I can, but I don’t spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve.”

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“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak…

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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns…

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I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform,…

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“At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.”

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