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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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Kelly Barnhill

Kelly Barnhill is a talented author born in 1973. Her works are known for their imaginative storytelling and emotional depth. more

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“عندما تسير على ضفاف النهر فى وقت متاخر من الليل و الرعب يتمللكك و الخوف يسيطر عليك و لا ترى من حولك سوى الظلام الحالك و لا تسمع سوى جنيات النهر تنده عليك لتاخذك الى عالمها السفلى المخيف عندها تتذكر نعمه ان تعيش فى بيت امن و غرفه امنه و اسره حنونه جميله تحبك . هى اشياء عظيمه لاتقدر بثمن”

“I don’t mean to scare you,” Claire says, “but you could have half-siblings you know nothing about. Who’s to say they wouldn’t know about you? As far as your daddy goes, you never knew what to expect from him. Why should you know now? You have created such a beautiful life for your family, and your children are obviously so proud of you. I don’t think anything you could tell them would ever change that. But something you haven’t told them might.”

“Maternal love is an instinctive and natural impulse, and animals possess it in a degree as high as that of human beings. This alone is enough to show that it is not true love, that it is not of moral origin ; for all morality proceeds from the intelligible character which animals, having no free will, do not possess. The ethical imperative can be heard only by a rational creature ; there is no such thing as natural morality, for all morality must be self-conscious.”