Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie,…

Jennifer Donnelly
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous. ✨ Jennifer Donnelly (2015). A Gathering Light, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous. ✨ Jennifer Donnelly (2015). A Gathering Light, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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