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Gwendalyn Anderson

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Gwendalyn’s Quotes

“She mused on the words and beads for days but couldn’t see the pattern. There was a piece missing.”
― Nicola Griffith, Hild

tags: st-hild

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“Good girls smell like burnt tangerines for those with bad intentions-- fragrant but bitter, it is a repellant. Bad girls like me smell like ripe apples, ready for picking, juicy and tart.
No one will miss them at all.”
― Camilla Bruce, You Let Me In

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“To him the magic of their mysteries;
To him the book of Night was opened wide,
And voices from the deep abyss revealed
A marvel and a secret.
—Be it so.”

― Lord Byron”
― Lord Byron

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“After all these years, I thought I’d finally find the place I belonged.” “You have,” he assured her. “It’s here. Right here, with me.”
― Rules for Ruin Mimi Matthews

tags: rulesforruin

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“You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
― Michael McMillian

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