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Daughter of Crows (The Kindness Academy, #1)

by Mark Lawrence

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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

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“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

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― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

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“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

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