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Halloween. All Hallow’s f*cking Eve.
Money Faucet by Joe Calderwood
Knock Knock
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War came to Olympus
- Pegasus and the Flame

I am still a child at heart and I love these books! :)
"I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence" - Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars)
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My brother ruined a perfectly good run by saying, “Justine is pregnant.”

Peace Talks Jim Butcher
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Nikita Brown trained her polished, black semi-automatic pistol towards the guard lying face down on the dirty tiled floor of Key Bank.

~Torn Between a Goon & a Gangster by Jade Jones.
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For reasons undiscovered, autumn came every year early to the oaks of the Virken Wood.

We are Voulhire: The fires of Virko by Matthew Tysz
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Prepare yourself for a transformative experience.,sometimes times life’s setbacks contain hidden gifts.


The Getaway by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
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It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

Those privileged to be present at a family festival of the Forsytes have seen that charming and instructive sight - an upper middle-class family in full plumage.

The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"Rae paced the living room, unable to hear the creaking floorboard
over the screams from the bedroom." from Mirrored Worlds by Tayma Tameen.
It is already so beutiful.
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"Once there lived a wise and wicked ruler of a vast and powerful nation" from We Are Voulhire by Matthew Tysz.
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"Emma Harte leaned forward and looked out of the window."

A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
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According to family legend, Ferguson's grandfather departed from his native city of Minsk with one hundred rubles sewn into the lining of his jacket, traveled west to Hamburg through Warsaw and Berlin, and then booked passage on a ship called Empress of China, which crossed the Atlantic in rough winter storms and sailed into New York Harbor on the first day of the twentieth century.

4321, Paul Auster
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Good and evil have always existed.

-Doomed, Chuck Palahniuk
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He was about six feet two inches tall.

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"A black murder rose from the wound of a cliff, a blood stain against the royal purple of the lavender meadow."

Spectre of War, Kin S. Law
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"Rae paced the living room, unable to hear the creaking floorboard over the screams from the bedroom."

Mirrored Worlds by Tayma Tameem.
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