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Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.Karen Marie Moning
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It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.Karen Marie Moning
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My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.” He always said “your world.” But he called Dublin his city. Merely because he’d been in it so long? Or had Barrons, like me, been beguiled by her tawdry grace, fallen for her charm and colorful dualities? I looked around “my” bookstore. That was what I called it. Did we call the things of our heart our own, whether they were or not? .Karen Marie Moning
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If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?Karen Marie Moning
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But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before. Cheese and people are not the same.Kit Alloway
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Don’t lose yourself in anger, Mac. It’s gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you - only your body doesn’t have the good grace to quit breathing.Karen Marie Moning
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A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.Kit Alloway
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I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.Karen Marie Moning