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“Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.”

Book:The Sugar Queen

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The Sugar Queen

In this engaging story, readers are taken on a journey through the lives of the residents of a small town, where the annual Sugar Queen contest serves as a backdrop for a series of interconnected narratives. The contest, which celebrates the town's sugar beet industry, brings together a diverse group of characters, each with their own dreams, desires, and secrets. As the contest unfolds, the characters' lives intertwine, revealing the undercurrents of ambition, love, and the human condition. more

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Sarah Addison Allen

Sarah Addison Allen is an American author born in 1971. Her works are known for their fantasy and romance elements, which have won the hearts of readers. more

“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”

World Firsts Believe Heart War Pieces Cutting Progress Fronts Activity Quiet Strive Western Bombs Love Life Explosions Eighteen

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6”

Ifs Knows Lying Fall Fronts Quiet Shots Western Determine Suspense Uncertainty Ducks Shells

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

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