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“They dabbled in dark magic like finger painters in first grade art class, and then most of them were either killed by their creations or ran the other way from the nightmares they unleashed.”

Book:Hunting for Spring

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Hunting for Spring

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“With just a tap on the gas, the car flew off of the road and skidded sideways into the encompassing woods. And I felt the sudden impact as the tires scraped against mounds of dirt, buried roots and jagged stones. The blood-red moon lightly broke through the scattered leaves above us as we bounced among the hidden marshes that could have stretched for miles. But I had no recollection of time because everything, the sounds and the surrounding scenery swept by so quickly. Gripping the steering wheel, his feet on the pedals, spine arched, and my hair whipping my face in the wind from the freshly broken glass on my passenger-side-window I couldn’t help but smile with the childish pleasure of being hurtled through the air as if we were on a rollercoaster built for two.”

Driving Witches Fantasy Fiction Fantasy Young Adult Fiction Fantasy Paranormal Fiction Rollercoaster Rollercoaster Of Emotions Driving Lessons Casters

Book:FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

Source: FLAME: Chronicles of a Teenage Caster

“Hoping and imagining and believing in magic had always been like breathing to Evangeline.”

Hope Imagination Magic

Author:Stephanie Garber, A Curse For True Love

“We took a bowl each and started eating. He went back into the little room, and by the time he returned to the table with his own bowl of food to eat with us, we had already finished. He was shocked and looked around to see if we had done something else with the food.”

War Sad Sierra Leone Child Soldiers

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“These boys have no idea what a child’s play is, childhood is an endangered and fleeting phase of life for everyone around here.” –Christian Ezora.”

Child Soldiers

Book:Ujasiri

Source: Ujasiri

“I’ve been raised by a father who is the consummate macho man. He has a face carved of stone and wouldn’t give anyone the chance to believe that he might have any feelings of pain or sadness. He brought me and my there brothers up not to cry.”

Fighting Soldier Ptsd Aftermath Child Soldiers

Book:Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

Source: Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969

“Children can be murderers... Little boys can be monsters”

War Warfare Child Soldiers

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“In the end, it was always so easy to kill her heart. It didn't matter that they looked like boys. That they were nothing, nothing like the monsters she had once known. In this war of racial totality, none of that mattered. If they were Mugenese, that meant they were crickets and that meant when she crushed them under her heel, the universe hardly registered their loss.”

War Racism Brutality Child Soldiers

Book:The Poppy War

Source: The Poppy War

“I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.”

Sad Innocence Sierra Leone Child Soldiers

Book:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Source: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men... go home victorious.”

War Child Soldiers Angolan Bush War

Book:The Space Race

Source: The Space Race

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