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Carol "Pixie" Brearly

Goodreads Author

Born

in The United States

Website

https://www.amazon.com/author/pixiebrearley

Genre

Paranormal, Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thriller

Influences

Edgar Allen Poe, Willim Shakespeare and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...more

Member Since

November 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/pixiewings

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Carol "Pixie" Brearley was born in Florida, raised in Brooklyn/Queens NY, and moved to upstate NY in her early teens where she now resides.

A stay-at-home mother to three she chose family over career and does not regret a moment of it because it allowed her to bring The Dark Angel Trilogy to life. ...more

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Carol "Pixie" Brearly's Blog

“What we've got here is failure to communicate.”

I have to apologize for my absence. 2020 was not the best year, and my muse has been on vacation. I do, however, intend to get back on track this year. I have several books in progress, that I lost momentum on, and I hope to work my way through them. My hope is to release two new books this year. {fingers crossed}

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Hazel leads a healthy life during the day, up at seven in the morning, off

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Carol "Pixie" Brearly’s books

Average rating: 4.48 · 31 ratings · 9 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Rise of the Dark Angel (The Dark Angel Trilogy, #1) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evil Man: A Dark Angel Trilogy Short 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Attic 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fall of the Darkness (The Dark Angel Trilogy, #3) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Wings Spread (The Dark Angel Trilogy, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Angel Trilogy 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Secondhand Luck (The Shadow Age #2)

by Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)

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As the Last Leaf Falls: A Pagan's Perspective on Death, Dying & Bereavement

by Kristoffer Hughes

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“Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.”
― Carol Brearley

tags: art, emotion, painting

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“Hurt no more, fear no more, cry no more.”
― Carol Brearley

tags: trilogy

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“Sometimes we try to hard to be something we are not, perhaps being ourselves is harder than we think.”
― Carol Brearley

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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
― Epicurus

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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: human-nature

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“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

tags: friendship

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“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
― Virgil

tags: hell, virgil

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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