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  1. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man, or simply those small everyday things that somehow manage to hurt us most: the look of impatience, the angry word, the missed bedtime story, the forgotten kiss, the terrible moment when a mother ceases to be the center of her daughter's world and becomes
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  2. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky -- usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins
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  3. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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  4. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
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  5. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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  6. Joanne Harris _ The Girl with No Shadow

    Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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