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His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books.
His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It's a shame they do that," he says, thumbing through the pages. "Requirement ruins even the best of books.
Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary
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- Victoria Schwab
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- Approximate author period: c. 2010 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for V. E. Schwab: documented activity in 2010. Wikidata Q17468111, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17468111 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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